Senior Backend Engineer | Distributed Systems

Distributed systems across enterprise, government, and financial-scale platforms.

Core Focus: Scalability • Fault Tolerance • Event-Driven Systems • Cloud Architecture

40%
Deployment Speed

35%
Reliability Gain

10M+
Transactions

About

Backend systems engineer focused on distributed systems and cloud-native architecture.

Flagship Project

EduExcellence: High-Performance School Management

Distributed microservice architecture optimized for low-latency student record retrieval.

Pattern: Cache-Aside • Strategy: Custom Jackson JSON Serialization • Concurrency: Optimistic Locking

Technical Deep Dive → GitHub Repo →

Equifax Data Intelligence & Mortgage Platform (Production System)

Distributed ETL system for U.S. court data + financial account restructuring platform.

ETL • Distributed ingestion • Failure handling • Financial modeling

Deep Dive →

Federal Regulatory Insights Engine

NLP-driven distributed pipeline processing regulatory datasets at scale.

Partitioning • Streaming vs Batch • Ranking systems

GitHub →

Money Transfer Platform

Event-driven financial system with retries and idempotency.

Consistency • Failure recovery • Distributed transactions

GitHub →

Order Tracking Microservices

Spring Boot + React event-driven logistics system.

Service boundaries • API gateway • Scaling

GitHub →

Employee Management API

Enterprise HR system with clean domain architecture.

Domain modeling • Schema design • API versioning

GitHub →

Experience (Click to Expand)

Betsi Eco Hub LLC 2023 - Present

Technical Lead

AWS distributed microservices
40% performance improvement
AI automation integration

LTIMindtree (Equifax) 2023

Senior Engineer

Built ETL pipelines for U.S. county court data (7–10 years)
Designed distributed ingestion + transformation systems
Implemented AWS monitoring + failure alerting
Designed Parent/Child account model for mortgage systems
Worked across AWS + GCP (multi-cloud)

TCS (CNA Insurance) 2021 - 2022

Java Engineer

SOAP → REST migration
Redis caching systems

Public Health Institute 2013 - 2016

Senior Engineer

National health systems

Ministry of Science & Technology 2011 - 2013

Software Engineer

Government systems + optimization models

City Government of Addis Ababa 2010 - 2011

Software Engineer

Enterprise fleet system (JSF, EJB, Hibernate)

Education

M.S. Computer Science — Boston University

B.Sc. Natural Resources Economics & Management — Mekelle University

Contact

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Email: mdraya3@gmail.com