Mohammad Vahid Alizadeh

Creativity
Innovation
Experience

🔹 Over 10 years building scalable, cloud-native systems across finance, cloud, and AI/ML environments

🔹 Innovative engineering leader with experience mentoring teams and delivering in high-availability, production-critical settings

🔹 Expert in Java, Spring, AWS, and microservices architecture with hands-on backend development expertise

🔹 Applied machine learning, big data analytics, and parallel processing in production environments

🔹 Ph.D. in Computer Science with published research in cryptography, cloud security, and risk modeling

🔹 Actively researches and applies emerging technologies to improve system architecture, performance, and scalability

🔹 Skilled in translating complex requirements into secure, maintainable, enterprise-grade software solutions

🔹 Recognized as a GitHub Arctic Code Vault Contributor & top Stack Overflow contributor (1,200+ reputation and 100+ tech answers)

Experience

2023-Present

 

 

 

 

 

 

2021-2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

2020-2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

2016-2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

2015-2016

 

 

 

 

 

Lead Software Engineer, Card Core Services

Capital One – New York, NY

 

Leads a team of 7 engineers in the redesign, modernization, and optimization of high-volume payment processing systems. Oversees

The development and scaling of cloud-native services using microservices architecture in a mission-critical environment.

Senior Software Engineer, AWS Translate (AI/ML)

Amazon Web Services – New York, NY 

 

Led performance, reliability, and infrastructure enhancements for a large-scale machine translation platform. Designed scalable

backend services, improved observability, and expanded compute capabilities to support global demand and AI-driven workloads.

Senior Software Engineer, Import Aggregation Team

JPMorgan Chase – New York, NY 

 

Developed cloud-based microservices to streamline third-party data integration and enhance financial data processing. Contributed to

backend architecture, orchestration logic, and service testing in a distributed, event-driven environment.

Senior Research Software Engineer, PaaS Team

IBM – New York, NY 

 

Hired shortly after college as a Senior Engineer and promoted to a senior role, leading the design of platform services and analytical tools

to improve performance monitoring, cloud storage efficiency, and system optimization across enterprise cloud and hybrid environments.

Software Engineer, Model Risk Management Department

GE Capital – Norwalk, CT 

 

Performed core software engineering responsibilities while exceeding role scope by contributing as a data scientist and supporting

analytics, modeling, and insights that strengthened financial risk systems.

Skills

 

Cloud Architecture Microservices Architecture Distributed Systems Java, Spring, Python, Kafka,

Docker

Performance Optimization Backend Development Scalable API Design AWS (Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, S3)

Stakeholder Collaboration AWS Infrastructure CI/CD Pipelines Git, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Redis, Hadoop

2023-Present

Capital One

2021-2023

AWS

2020-2021

JPMorgan Chase

2016-2020

IBM