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Rafi Boghosians

@rafiboghosians

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Senior Software Engineer building secure Java microservices and cloud-ready DevOps platforms.

Armenia

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a team where I can own microservices end-to-end—designing APIs, shipping reliable backends, and improving DevOps with CI/CD, IaC, and observability—while collaborating with distributed engineers to deliver production-grade systems.

I’m a Senior Software Engineer and AWS Certified Solutions Architect with 10+ years of enterprise backend experience, with a focus on building reliable financial systems and scalable microservices. I enjoy turning complex requirements into maintainable services—then hardening them through CI/CD, observability, and production-minded engineering.

In my current role, I analyze business and technical requirements for issuing-bank back-office solutions serving financial institutions across Europe. I develop and enhance Java enterprise backend features, investigate production defects and performance bottlenecks, and implement reporting and database changes (DDL/DML) to improve stability and operational efficiency.

Alongside backend engineering, I independently architected and shipped YerevanPerfumes.am as a full microservices platform. I oversaw system design and Docker infrastructure, built CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment to Hetzner VPS with no service interruption, configured Nginx reverse proxy with Cloudflare SSL, and ran a full observability stack (Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Promtail) to keep operations transparent.

Earlier, I delivered full-stack products with Spring MVC and Spring Security, including authentication/authorization and REST endpoints integrated with real-world devices, and I also owned full project lifecycle responsibilities when integrating banking ATM hardware with the Kalignite platform. I bring that same end-to-end mindset to every team—collaborating across distributed engineering groups and using tools like Terraform, Linux operations, and API-first design to deliver outcomes that hold up in production.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Full-Stack Perfume Discovery Platform

Current

YerevanPerfumes.am

Mar 2026 - Present (4 months)

Independently architected and launched a production-grade bilingual perfume marketplace, managing system design, infrastructure, deployment pipeline, and server operations end-to-end. Built the microservices platform with Docker/CI-CD, reverse proxy and access control, and a full observability stack, including a face landmark-based feature integrated in the browser.

Current

Senior Java Software Engineer

Current

Energize Global Services (Projects for Worldline)

Jun 2019 - Present (7 years 1 month)

Developed and enhanced backend features for an enterprise financial platform, including resolving production defects and performance bottlenecks. Implemented database changes, refactored exception handling and logging, and collaborated with distributed engineering teams across France, India, and Armenia.

JBoss Hibernate Oracle PostgreSQL Maven Gitlab REST SOAP Postman SoapUI IntelliJ IDEA Swagger Financial Reporting

Full Stack Software Engineer

InformaticsSolution LLC

Mar 2015 - Jun 2019 (4 years 3 months)

Designed and developed a full-stack employee time tracking web application, including database schema, REST endpoints, and frontend integration. Implemented authentication/authorization with Spring Security, built real-time notifications using HTML5 Server-Sent Events, and worked on GRG banking ATM integration.

Java 8 MySQL Spring MVC Spring Security JavaScript jQuery AJAX JSP Maven Gitlab Server Sent Events (SSE)

Software Engineering Intern

ACBA-Credit Agricole Bank

Jan 2018 - May 2018 (4 months)

Contributed to desktop and web banking applications for customer banking operations. Designed and developed Microsoft SQL Server database components and developed Windows Forms and ASP.NET features under senior developer supervision.

C .NET Microsoft SQL Server ASP.NET Bootstrap

Freelance Web Scraping Engineer

Freelance

Aug 2015 - May 2018 (2 years 9 months)

Built small websites and internal tools for clients and implemented data extraction solutions for static and dynamic pages. Cleaned, transformed, and stored collected data in MySQL and delivered results in CSV and Excel formats.

PHP Symfony HTML5 CSS3 JavaScript jQuery Bootstrap Java Python JSoup Selenium Webdriver MySQL CSV Excel Git Linux

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

American University of Armenia

Master of Science (MSc), Computer and Information Science

2015 - 2018

Earned an MSc in Computer and Information Science. Thesis focused on a Face Detection and Recognition System using the Viola-Jones algorithm and LBPH recognition implemented in C# with OpenCV.