Tsinu A.
Gezahgn
Senior Software Engineer
Building cloud-native financial systems at scale — distributed architecture, serverless microservices, and infrastructure that doesn't break under pressure.
Java · AWS · Kubernetes · Terraform · Dallas, TX
About
I'm a Senior Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase in Plano, TX, where I design APIs and tooling for configuration management across private cloud deployments. My current work includes the Configuration Blueprint Platform — enabling frictionless deployment across diverse environments.
Over 9 years I've worked across the stack: building serverless job-ad event systems at Amazon (via Insight Global), reactive Java SDKs at Apple (via Advantis Global), and real-time data pipelines at NEMS AS in Norway. My focus is on cloud-native architecture — Java, Spring Boot, AWS, and Kubernetes — with a growing interest in applying ML to infrastructure problems.
I hold a master's in Computer Science from Maharishi International University in Iowa and an earlier MS in Computer Science & Networking from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and the University of Pisa in Italy.
Tech I work with
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS
30+ services
Backend
9+ years building scalable APIs and distributed systems.
Frontend
Data & Messaging
Security
Penetration testing background. OWASP vulnerability assessment at Apple and INSA.
Selected Work
Projects
JPMC Configuration Blueprint Platform
API platform enabling frictionless service configuration, deployment, and versioning across JPMorgan Chase's GAIA private cloud environments.
Amazon Job Advertisement Event System
Serverless microservices platform handling job advertisement lifecycle events at Amazon scale, replacing a brittle monolith that couldn't sustain peak hiring traffic.
NEMS Real-Time Analytics Pipeline
End-to-end data pipeline for NEMS Accounter that cut financial data processing time from one full day to three minutes, enabling real-time decision-making.
Career
Experience
JPMorgan Chase
Senior Software Engineer (SWE III)·May 2024 – Present·Plano, TXBuild and maintain APIs for the Configuration Blueprint platform, which controls how software packages are defined, versioned, and deployed across JPMorgan's private cloud. Led automation work that cut deployment time by 30 minutes per package and shipped tooling that moves teams off deprecated configurations at scale. Also exploring ML and GenAI use cases, including semantic search with AWS Bedrock, to reduce misconfiguration rates across cloud environments.
Amazon
Contract via Insight GlobalFull Stack Developer·Mar 2023 – Dec 2023·Seattle, WALed a team of five engineers to break up a monolithic job advertisement system into event-driven serverless microservices across 15+ AWS services. Automated infrastructure with CDK, implemented CI/CD pipelines that tightened the release cycle, and hardened backend security with JWT authentication and TLS certificate management.
Apple
Contract via Advantis GlobalBackend Developer·Jul 2022 – Feb 2023·Austin, TXBuilt and maintained a Java Security SDK with mTLS, OAuth 2.0, and JWT filters to standardize secure app-to-app authentication across Apple's Ad Platform microservices. This reduced security protocol implementation time by 40% and cut security incidents by 50% per internal audits. Also migrated services to Spring WebFlux for non-blocking throughput and worked through OWASP vulnerabilities with continuous SonarQube monitoring.
NEMS AS
Full Stack Cloud Developer·Feb 2018 – Dec 2021·Stavanger, NorwayRebuilt the company's core analytics product from the ground up, cutting data processing latency from 24 hours to three minutes with a PostgreSQL-backed event-driven read model. Migrated job servers from dedicated EC2 to serverless (ECS Fargate, Step Functions, Docker), which cut infrastructure costs by 40% and improved operational efficiency by 30%. Also built an Integration-as-a-Service system that let clients push raw CSV emissions data directly into the platform, removing the need for manual conversion and reducing integration effort by 40%.
University of Pisa
Joint Programme in Distributed and Interconnected SystemsGraduate Researcher, M.S. Thesis (JPDI)·Jan 2017 – Jul 2017·Pisa, ItalyDesigned and implemented a Java 8 parallel dependency library for multi-core architectures, working through concurrency models and task-scheduling strategies for high-throughput workloads. The work gave me a grounding in parallel computation that still shapes how I think about performance-critical systems.
INSA
Application Developer·Oct 2011 – Sep 2014·Addis Ababa, EthiopiaBuilt a vulnerability record system to track and report security issues across government infrastructure, did penetration testing on critical systems, and wrote a custom fuzzer to detect buffer overflow vulnerabilities. That hands-on offensive security work gave me a lasting understanding of how systems break under adversarial conditions.
Let's build something.
Open to senior/staff engineering roles, cloud architecture consulting, and collaboration on AI/ML side projects.
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