damiangene

Software Development Engineer

I’m a software engineer with 6 years of experience in fintech and cloud systems, currently shifting my focus toward Web3. At AWS I work on large-scale compliance and efficiency systems within EC2, but most of my recent work has been self-driven — building a triangular arbitrage bot and developing a flash loan arbitrage system using Aave.

My interest in Web3 is practical. I’m exploring how automated trading, DeFi infrastructure, and risk management can be applied to create efficient, scalable systems. 

Right now, I’m focused on building and experimenting, with the longer-term goal of applying my background in finance and distributed systems to meaningful projects in Web3.


Experience: 6 years

Yearly salary: $120,000

Hourly rate: $70

Nationality: 🇿🇦 South Africa

Residency: 🇿🇦 South Africa


Experience

Software Development Engineer
Amazon Web Services
2022 - 2025
- Designed and implemented scalable systems using AWS services, Java, and Python, ensuring health, cost efficiency, and compliance for 2M+ virtualized instances across thousands of teams. - Improved AWS region build cadence and cost efficiency by deprecating internal services and automating operationally heavy tasks. - Expanded adoption of internal products by simplifying onboarding and enabling seamless integration of stateful services through SQS and SNS. - Led DevOps initiatives, building CI/CD pipelines and automating infrastructure provisioning (AWS Cloudformation) to reduce deployment times and improve reliability. Proactively reduced operational load by identifying pain points, engaging global dependencies, and formalizing new processes. - Mentored team members on technical challenges and soft skills, improving collaboration and the software development lifecycle.
Full stack Developer and Architect
VoxCroft Analytics
2021 - 2022
- Redesigned and deployed core features using .NET Core 5.0 and Blazor, significantly enhancing product reliability and system scalability. - Overhauled the company’s core architecture to automate manual workflows and improve operational efficiency. - Implemented auto-scaling of compute power and storage with EKS, Fargate, and EFS, ensuring systems adapt seamlessly to changing workloads. Established CI/CD pipelines via Azure DevOps, accelerating deployment cycles. - Utilized Docker and AWS ECR to streamline application packaging and deployment. Handled all day to day database administrator tasks in SQL. - Helped upskill members of my team on AWS and general code practices. - Formed part of the core technical team that designed the architecture of new products as well as refined existing processes.
Full stack Developer
Full Stack
2019 - 2021
- Developed core features using the .Net Core and ASP.NET framework. - Implemented microservice architecture and created REST API’s that integrated with a custom frontend. - Wrote T-SQL stored procedures to handle core financial business logic such as reconciliation and investment growth. - Built and maintained component libraries in React.js, making use of the Storybook.js framework. - Provisioned AWS resources (Lambda, EC2, Cognito) and set up CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps. Followed and led the scrum process and all relevant ceremonies.
Final mix engineer
Freelance
2015 - 2019
Responsible for mixing all audio elements of a television or film production for broadcast. Included coordinating with other professionals and clients in a highly pressured industry with exceptionally tight deadlines.

Skills

architecture
aws
backend
c-sharp
cloud
devops
engineer
fintech
java
javascript
react
english