Arturo Velazquez 👋

Senior Backend Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing and scaling microservices and event-driven architectures in Java and Spring Boot on AWS. Proven track record delivering high-reliability payment, subscription, and financial systems processing hundreds of thousands of daily transactions. Skilled in building secure APIs, optimizing AWS infrastructures, and leading cross-functional teams through complex, cloud-native project delivery. Strong expertise in database scaling (sharding, replicas), observability (distributed tracing, metrics, logging), and performance tuning. Passionate about raising engineering standards through mentoring, design patterns, testing strategies, and resilient system design.