Preston K. Eagle
Solutions Architect, Banking
Charlotte, NC · (704) 555 0152 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/prestonkeagle
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Fourteen years in software engineering and solution architecture
INDUSTRIES
Banking, financial technology, regulated data platforms
SPECIALTIES
Cloud migration design, event driven architecture, resilience planning, cost modeling
SYSTEMS
Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, Kafka, Terraform, Snowflake, Jira, Python
CREDENTIALS
Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect Professional, Certified Kubernetes Administrator
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in computer engineering, Clemson University
Executive Summary
Solutions architect with fourteen years designing systems for banks and financial technology firms, the last five on cloud migrations that had to satisfy auditors as well as engineers. Works in the space between an executive sponsor who wants a date and a platform team that has to live with the design. Writes decisions down.
Signature Achievements
- Designed the migration of forty seven applications to Amazon Web Services, delivered over two years with no unplanned customer outage.
- Cut monthly cloud spend by one point three million dollars a year by resizing workloads and moving batch jobs off peak.
- Replaced nightly file transfers with an event stream, dropping data latency from twelve hours to under two minutes.
- Set the reference architecture that eleven delivery teams now build against, which removed most design review rework.
- Brought recovery time for the customer facing platform from six hours to twenty five minutes through tested failover.
- Won an eight million dollar platform program by leading the technical design sessions with the client architecture board.
Professional Experience
Solutions Architect
Catawba Financial Technologies, Charlotte, NC 2021 to present
Architecture for a payments and lending platform serving one hundred sixty community banks, working across eleven delivery teams.
- Own the target architecture for the platform and the sequenced plan that moves teams toward it.
- Run design reviews for every significant change, recording the decision and the options rejected.
- Model cost and capacity before build so finance and engineering agree on the number in advance.
- Design resilience patterns and prove them with quarterly failover exercises rather than documents.
- Advise the chief technology officer on build against buy choices with a written recommendation each time.
Cloud Architect
Southeast Cloud Partners, Charlotte, NC 2017 to 2021
Consulting architect on cloud migrations for regional banks and insurers with budgets from one to nine million dollars.
- Assessed client application estates and produced migration plans ranked by risk and business value.
- Built landing zone designs in Terraform that clients could operate after the engagement ended.
- Led architecture workshops with client teams who had never run a production workload in the cloud.
- Wrote the security control mapping that let auditors sign off on the first regulated workload.
Senior Software Engineer
Meridian Trust Bank, Winston Salem, NC 2012 to 2017
Backend engineering on account servicing systems used by three thousand branch and call center staff.
- Built Java services for account maintenance and moved them from a monthly to a weekly release.
- Led the redesign of a reporting job that had been failing under year end volume.
- Mentored four engineers and ran the internal design review that later became a bank standard.
Licensure and Certification
Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect Professional
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
The Open Group Architecture Framework certification
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Clemson University, 2012
Core Skills
Amazon Web Services · Kubernetes · Terraform · Kafka · Java · Python · Snowflake · Cost modeling · Resilience design · Architecture governance · Stakeholder facilitation