Abhishek Mathews
Senior Software Engineer
A Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience leading the design and delivery of high-impact systems — specializing in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and full-stack development that has to actually work at scale.

Work Experience
Identity, platform engineering, cloud cost, and consumer products — the systems and the teams that ship them.
Alarm.com
Senior Software Engineer
- 01Manage the centralized authentication platform that provides sign-on across Alarm.com applications, as part of the IAM team.
- 02Administer and extend Keycloak, defining realm and client configuration as code for reviewable, repeatable changes across environments.
- 03Build platform services and supporting tooling in C#.
- C#
- .NET
- Keycloak
- Configuration-as-Code
Capital One
Senior Software Engineer
- 01Led architecting and implementation of high risk issue resolution by creating just-in-time AWS access feature, resulting in fifty percent faster issue resolution time.
- 02Collaborated with team to improve app functionality, leading redesign of Auth and data access and achieving 20% decrease in user complaints.
- 03Implemented compliant database deployments by integrating with internal CI/CD tooling, reducing manual work by 50% and increasing data security.
- 04Released controlled deployment acceleration feature which runs on thousands of developer pipelines to save hundreds of hours and decreasing deployment time by 40%
- 05Overhauled user entitlement access in an internal CLI tooling in order to improve data retrieval/filtering around AWS IAM entitlements, especially for users with thousands of results
- Python
- FastAPI
- AWS Lambda
- AWS DynamoDB
- AWS RDS
- Jenkins
- Golang
- Typescript
- Angular
- AWS IAM
- Boto3
- PostgreSQL
- YAML
- React
- Redux
- GraphQL
Extend
Senior Software Engineer
- 01Designed and Released Customer-Facing Portal For Purchased Warranty Experience
- 02Helped design and build authentication flow along with the security team
- 03Built, updated, and maintained key API endpoints used by the application
- 04Brought new engineers up to speed with technology stack, architecture, and deployment patterns
- Typescript
- NodeJS
- AWS Lambda
- AWS SQS
- AWS DynamoDB/Table Streams
- React/Redux
- Chakra UI
- AWS Cognito
- Github Actions
Capital One
Senior Software Engineer
- 01Led refactor and implementation of EC2/ECS off-hours solution that optimized cost for AWS resources across thousands of non-production accounts.
- 02Implemented Cloud Custodian policies and visual emails to drive compliance and cost objectives
- 03Architected Off-Hours solution for database management in order to gain more cloud cost-savings.
- 04Designed and implemented a proof of concept solution to assist developers in producing IAM policies that used least-privilege principles based on their applications usage in non-production environments.
- Python
- AWS Lambda
- AWS DynamoDB
- AWS RDS
- AWS IAM
- Boto3
- Cloud Custodian
- YAML
Cloudreach
Cloud Systems Developer
- 01Executed Cloud Infrastructure standups for a large Financial Organization
- 02Supported front door tickets and requests to build out one-off resources
- 03Conducted cloud platform auditing using Cloud Custodian policies
Skills & Expertise
The working inventory — languages, platforms, and the tools kept within arm's reach.
Programming Languages
- Python
- TypeScript
- Java
- Golang
Cloud Platforms
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
DevOps Tools
- AWS CDK
- Terraform
- Jenkins
- Docker
- Kubernetes
Developer Tools
- GitHub
- Cursor
- GitHub Copilot
- Claude Code
Databases
- DynamoDB
- MongoDB
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
Education
Two degrees in the field, plus the credentials collected in the long shadow of cloud computing.
MS in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
/ 4.00
BS in Computer Science
George Mason University
/ 4.00
Certifications
MODULE 03.1Certified Solutions Architect Associate
Certified SysOps Associate