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Aqib Javed

@aqibjaved4

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I build resilient distributed fintech platforms and AI-powered workflow systems.

United Kingdom

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to lead and build scalable distributed, cloud-native, and AI-driven software platforms, translating complex business and regulatory needs into reliable systems while improving engineering practices and team delivery.

I lead backend engineering for JPMorgan Chase's OKYC platform, building configurable customer onboarding and KYC journeys for banks, tenants, and end users.

I architect event-driven microservices with Java, Scala, Kafka, CQRS, Temporal, and AWS. My work includes distributed workflow snapshots, reconciliation capabilities, dynamic journey configuration, and schema-validation frameworks that improve reliability across complex fintech systems.

Previously at AWS, I contributed to Amazon S3 Event Notifications, improving event processing, recovery capabilities, observability, and infrastructure-aware scaling for a platform with 99.999% durability and 99.99% delivery guarantees. I've also built AI-assisted incident-response and testing agents using LangChain and large language models.

Across Bynder, Morgan Stanley, EPAM Systems, and payment-platform teams, I've delivered scalable APIs, digital asset workflows, collateral optimization services, real-time analytics, and banking integrations. I also write technical articles on Java, microservices, and backend engineering.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Lead Software Engineering

Current

JPMorgan Chase

Aug 2023 - Present (3 years 1 month)

Led backend engineering for a fintech platform, driving architecture and delivery of the OKYC platform for configurable customer onboarding and KYC journeys. Designed microservices, event-driven systems, and AI-powered testing agents.

Java Scala Kafka CQRS Temporal Microservices Domain Driven Design Hexagonal Architecture LLM AWS CockroachDB Spring Boot CI CD

Software Engineer II

Amazon Web Services

Dec 2021 - Aug 2023 (1 year 8 months)

Contributed to Amazon S3 Event Notifications, designing distributed systems and event-processing solutions for high-volume event delivery. Resolved production issues and implemented hardware-aware scaling and AI-assisted incident response.

Distributed Systems Event Driven Architecture AWS Kinesis Kafka Java Observability Monitoring AI Incident Response Automation

Visiting Faculty Member

EVS Professional Institute

Dec 2015 - Dec 2022 (7 years)

Served as visiting faculty for Java SE, Java EE, and Android courses. Also acted as lab attendant for C# and ASP.NET MVC.

Java Java EE Android C#ASP.NET MVC

Senior Software Engineer

Bynder

May 2021 - Dec 2021 (7 months)

Developed core services for Bynder's Digital Asset Management platform, building scalable APIs and microservices using Scala and Akka. Implemented CQRS, Event Sourcing, and machine learning for asset classification.

Scala Akka Microservices CQRS Event Sourcing AWS DynamoDB RDS JWT Kong Jenkins ScalaTest Machine Learning

Senior Software Engineer

Morgan Stanley

Feb 2020 - May 2021 (1 year 3 months)

Contributed to Morgan Stanley's collateral optimization platform, designing services to parse and compile collateral schedules. Developed a machine learning pipeline using Python and XGBoost to improve optimization recommendations.

Java Spring Boot CPLEX Python Pandas XGBoost BDD Microservices Event Driven Architecture Multithreading

Software Engineer

EPAM Systems

Feb 2019 - Feb 2020 (1 year)

Developed backend services for large-scale transportation analytics and workforce management platforms. Built scalable analytics services using Apache Spark, Hadoop, and Kafka, and implemented graph database solutions with Neo4j.

Java Spring Boot Apache Spark Hadoop Kafka Neo4j Terraform AWS Docker CI CD

Software Engineer

Pentaloop

Jun 2018 - Feb 2019 (8 months)

Contributed to banking integration services connecting ERP platforms with banking systems. Designed RESTful microservices using Java and Spring Boot for payment processing and account information retrieval.

Java Spring Boot Hibernate REST Microservices CI CD

Software Engineer

i2c inc.

May 2017 - Jul 2018 (1 year 2 months)

Contributed to payment processing platforms for credit, debit, prepaid, and loyalty products. Designed backend services using Java and Apache Struts, and implemented a live publishing framework for configuration synchronization.

Java Design Patterns Multithreading Ehcache Payment Systems

Software Engineer

IQVIS

Jun 2016 - Apr 2017 (10 months)

Designed and developed applications across IoT, ticketing, real-time communication, and financial management domains. Built reusable components and implemented Bluetooth Low Energy solutions.

Java IoT Bluetooth Low Energy Design Patterns Financial Analytics

Associate Software Engineer

Symans International

Apr 2016 - Jun 2016 (2 months)

Implemented distributed databases, Saga patterns, and event sourcing with in-memory data grids.

Distributed Systems Saga Event Sourcing In Memory Grids

Technical Writer

Medium

Aug 2019 - Present (7 years 1 month)

Authored articles on IT, Java programming, and back-end engineering, covering microservices architecture, Java techniques, and scalable back-end systems.

Java Microservices