Daniel Blandes

✦ Developed RESTful APIs using Python, FastAPI/Django to enable secure and efficient communication between backend systems and client applications, reducing system response time by 40% and significantly improving the application’s overall performance.

✦ Collaborated with front-end developers to seamlessly integrate user-facing components with server-side logic utilizing JavaScript, React.js, Python, FastAPI, and NoSQL, leading to a substantial enhancement in application responsiveness and efficiency, reducing average load times.

✦ Developed and enhanced enterprise-level backend solutions using Java with Spring Boot, multi-threading, and event-driven architectures with Kafka, handling a 40% increase in API traffic with zero downtime enabling seamless, delivering high-performance and seamless third-party API integrations.

✦ Architected a scalable, fault-tolerant microservices system leveraging AWS Lambda, SQS, and SNS to optimize real-time payment processing, enhancing system resilience and enabling the platform to handle thousands of transactions per second with minimal latency.

✦ Implemented a highly intuitive, enterprise-level web interface leveraging React.js, significantly enhancing platform responsiveness and usability, leading to a more seamless user experience and an increase in user session duration and engagement by 25%.

✦ Implemented CI/CD pipelines leveraging Jenkins and GitHub Actions to automate testing, optimize deployment workflows, and enhance software reliability, resulting in twice the deployment speed and higher code quality by catching 30% more issues before production.

✦ Identified bottlenecks in a high-traffic Django REST API, refactored database queries using Django ORM optimizations (select_related, prefetch_related), and implemented Redis caching, reducing response time by 30%, improving system scalability and user experience.

✦ Engineered an API authentication using OAuth 2.0 and JWT, strengthening system security, enhancing user access control, and significantly minimizing unauthorized access incidents, resulting in a decrease in security breaches and a more resilient authentication framework.

✦ Integrated mobile money payment gateways using Python, Django, and third-party APIs to enable seamless and secure transactions for payments, enhancing user experience, which led to a significant boost in customer adoption and an increase of company revenue by 30%.

✦ Executed the development and implementation of a scalable architecture using Docker containerization, deploying endpoints across twelve servers to enhance system scalability and performance by 50% during peak usage while ensuring seamless service delivery.

✦ Created comprehensive and well-structured API documentation using Swagger/OpenAPI, enhancing clarity, usability, and maintainability, which streamlined developer onboarding and improved development efficiency, leading to faster adoption and fewer implementation errors.

✦ Optimized SQL database performance by refining queries, indexes, and stored procedures, significantly enhancing system efficiency, accelerating data retrieval speeds by 1.5x, and reducing system response times by 50%, improving user experience & operational productivity.