Abhishek Mathews
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience leading the design and delivery of high-impact systems, specializing in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and full-stack development.
Work Experience
Capital One
Senior Software Engineer
- •Streamlined high risk issue resolution by creating just-in-time AWS access feature, resulting in 50% faster issue resolution time.
- •Collaborated with team to improve app functionality, leading redesign of Auth and data access and achieving 20% decrease in user complaints.
- •Implemented compliant database deployments by integrating with internal CI/CD tooling, reducing manual work by 50% and increasing data security.
- •Released controlled deployment acceleration feature which runs on thousands of developer pipelines to save hundreds of hours and decreasing deployment time by 40%
- •Overhauled 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
- •Used application to greatly increase off-hour cost-savings for thousands of AWS resources
- •Implemented Cloud Custodian policies and visual emails to drive compliance and cost objectives
- •Architected Off-Hours solution for database management in order to gain more cloud cost-savings.
- •Designed 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.
Technologies Used:
Python, FastAPI, AWS Lambda, AWS DynamoDB, AWS RDS, Jenkins, Golang, Typescript, Angular, AWS IAM, Boto3, PostgreSQL, YAML, React, Redux, GraphQL
Extend • USA
Senior Software Engineer
- •Designed and Released Customer-Facing Portal For Purchased Warranty Experience
- •Helped design and build authentication flow along with the security team
- •Built, updated, and maintained key API endpoints used by the application
- •Brought new engineers up to speed with technology stack, architecture, and deployment patterns
Technologies Used:
Typescript, NodeJS, AWS Lambda, AWS SQS, AWS DynamoDB/Table Streams, React/Redux, Chakra UI, AWS Cognito, Github Actions
Cloudreach • Reston, VA, USA
Cloud Systems Developer
- •Executed Cloud Infrastructure standups for a large Financial Organization
- •Supported front door tickets and requests to build out one-off resources
- •Conducted cloud platform auditing using Cloud Custodian policies
Education
MS in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA, USA
GPA: 3.71
08/2022
BS in Computer Science
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA, USA
08/2013 - 05/2017
Certifications
Certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS
Certified SysOps Associate
AWS
Skills & Expertise
Programming Languages
PythonTypeScriptGolangJava
Cloud Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Developer Tools
GithubAI Tooling (Cursor, VSCode+CoPilot, Claude Code, etc.)
DevOps Tools
AWS CDKTerraformJenkinsDocker/Kubernetes
Databases
NoSQL (DynamoDB/MongoDB)MySQLPostgreSQL
Soft Skills
Problem SolvingEngineering MentorshipCommunicationTeamworkLeadershipAdaptability/Flexible