Branden Evangelista

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Software Engineer @ American Express

  • Education

    • Uf herbert wertheim college of engineering

      2018 - 2022
      Bachelor of science with a major in computer engineering computer engineering 3.86 gpa

      Graduated in May 2022 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering and a minor in Mathematics

    • Land o'​ lakes high school

      2014 - 2018
      High school diploma

      Activities and Societies: Mu Alpha Theta, Science Olympiad, National Honor Society Mu Alpha Theta (National Math Honor Society) - an organization that allowed the school to compete in various math competitions against other schools from different districtsScience Olympiad - a science organization that allowed the school to compete in science related competitions across a variety of disciplines against other schools in the stateNational Honor Society - an honor society that heavily focused on community service to create a positive impact at the school

  • Experience

    • Uf herbert wertheim college of engineering

      Jan 2021 - May 2021
      Teaching assistant

      Teaching assistant for Signals and Systems- Responsible for designing MATLAB exercises that cover the fundamentals of signal processing.- Hosting of lab sections and answering student questions whenever possible.- Grading labs, homework, and final exams

    • American express

      Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
      Software engineer - intern

      Optimizing an application within the Finance platform by integrating a cache layer to store chunks of data and allow for faster retrieval times.- Created a new design that would replace the Stored Procedure and the use of Oracle DB with GridGain, an in-memory computing service- Created a service that could convert Excel/CSV files into JSON- Contributed to setup of GridGain web server- Created a routine that uses an event listener to check for insertions in GridGain- Created routine to upload converted JSON object into GridGain- Created methods within API that allow for sorting and filtering of data on UI- Contributed to deployment of code onto E1 environment- Create unit tests for various services using JUnit Show less

    • American express

      Aug 2022 - now

      Responsible for designing new features/observability tools to monitor the health and status of various merchant application journeys across the American Express payment network.- Refactor batch job to read and process 1 million Splunk API logs daily, reducing overall execution time from 15 minutes to 3 minutes- Lead in the redesign and implementation of scalable Kafka job that continuously consumes and processes 10 million messages daily- Migrate existing services to new on-premise infrastructure, resulting in increased observability of usage metrics and easier deployments- Integrate custom JUnit tests into the CI/CD pipeline for increased resiliency- Contribute to upgrading various modules to JDK 21 and moving the CI/CD pipeline to GitHub Actions Show less Full-stack software engineer responsible for the development and maintenance of internal business process model.- Drive implementation of new automation practices within the platform and modernizing old use cases, resulting in a 50% decrease in run times- Design and develop API/UI solution that automates the previously manual invoicing process for merchants and streamliningmanagement of statement credits, resulting in invoice creation times decreasing from 6/12 months to 1 day- Design and integrated API framework to transfer documents from NFS server to Documentum for long-term storage, resulting in a 50% decrease in cost by minimizing use of NFS server- Drive development of API framework to fetch and store millions of invoices into the platform, automating the previously manual process of sales and use tax filing, decreasing the amount of filing time from 3-4 years to 1 month- Resolve tickets/incidents opened up by customers on a reactionary basis Show less

      • Software Engineer II - Site Reliability Engineering

        Apr 2024 - now
      • Software Engineer III - Finance Data Engineering

        Aug 2022 - Apr 2024
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Solidworks cwsa

      Dassault systèmes
      Mar 2021
    • Google cloud certified associate cloud engineer

      Google
      Oct 2024
      View certificate certificate
    • Open water diver

      Naui worldwide
      Apr 2022
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Branden Evangelista
      Gerald and Elaine L. Gibson Foundation Scholarship Recipient - Sep 2021
    • Awarded to Branden Evangelista
      President's Honor Roll Recipient University of Florida Jan 2020
    • Awarded to Branden Evangelista
      UF Dean's List Recipient University of Florida Jan 2019