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Hello, I'm Elen Aramyan

Senior Java & Go Developer | Lead Engineer

10+ years building enterprise-grade distributed systems in fintech, payments, and cloud infrastructure.

ex-Adobe 1M+ Card Migration Visa / Mastercard AWS Open to Remote B2B

01. About Me

When a bank needs to migrate a million cardholders seamlessly, or an enterprise platform needs its monolith rearchitected into 30+ microservices, or Visa and Mastercard integrations need to work flawlessly in production — that's where I come in.

I'm a Senior Java & Go Developer and Lead Engineer with over a decade of experience building systems that handle millions of transactions. Currently leading backend engineering at a licensed digital banking platform processing payments across multiple markets.

Previously at Adobe, I worked on Workfront and Fusion — decomposing monoliths, building enterprise integrations (Outlook, Salesforce, Jira), owning the full DevOps lifecycle, and cutting deployment times from 4 hours to 20 minutes.

I thrive on complexity: payment schemes, regulatory compliance, high-throughput event-driven systems, and leading international engineering teams.

0 + Years Experience
0 M+ Cardholders Migrated
0 + Microservices Built
0 K+ TPS Payment Processing

02. Experience

Lead Senior Java / Go Developer

Licensed Digital Banking Platform

Dec 2022 — Present

Leading backend engineering for a card issuing platform serving 20M+ cardholders across multiple markets.

  • Led full migration of 1M+ cardholders between issuing banks — zero downtime, full regulatory compliance
  • Architected integrations with Visa (VTS, Visa Direct), Mastercard (MDES, Mastercard Send), MPGS, UnionPay
  • Built real-time payment processing pipelines handling 10K+ TPS
  • Designed event-driven settlement, reconciliation, and dispute systems
  • Implemented 3DS2 authentication, tokenization, and PCI-DSS compliant card lifecycle management
  • Integrated core banking systems (ledger, KYC, transaction management)
Java 17+ Go Spring Boot Kafka PostgreSQL Redis AWS Kubernetes Docker

Senior Software Developer

Adobe — Fusion

Jul 2021 — Jul 2022

Core backend engineer on the workflow automation platform connecting 200+ enterprise applications.

  • Designed and built production connectors: Microsoft Outlook, Salesforce, Jira, Workday
  • Architected connector framework handling 5M+ daily API calls across customer tenants
  • Built OAuth2 and API key authentication flows for third-party integrations
  • Drove Go adoption for high-performance microservices alongside Java codebase
  • Mentored junior and mid-level engineers, led code reviews and architecture discussions
Java Go Spring Boot AWS Docker Kubernetes REST OAuth2 PostgreSQL

Software Developer II → Senior Developer

Adobe — Workfront

Dec 2017 — Jul 2021

Backend engineer on Workfront — an enterprise project management platform processing millions of daily requests.

  • Led disaggregation of monolith into 30+ independently deployable microservices
  • Reduced deployment time from 4 hours to 20 minutes through CI/CD automation
  • Rewrote legacy Java services — 60% faster responses, reduced technical debt by 40%
  • Improved test coverage from 45% to 85%
  • Optimized high-load PostgreSQL and Oracle queries — reduced p95 latency by 50%
  • Owned full DevOps lifecycle: Jenkins, Docker, AWS infrastructure, monitoring
Java Spring Boot Hibernate PostgreSQL Oracle Jenkins Docker SonarQube DataDog

Software Developer

Webb Fontaine

Oct 2016 — Dec 2017

Software engineer at a global leader in customs and trade automation, providing AI-powered solutions to governments across 10+ countries.

  • Developed Java-based automation frameworks for customs declaration processing
  • Built financial application modules for duty calculation and tariff classification
  • Integrated with government regulatory systems and cross-border data exchange protocols
Java Spring REST Oracle DB Linux

Software Developer

IBM ISTC

Mar 2016 — Oct 2016

Built FoodMiX — an AI-powered recipe recommendation startup from the ground up within IBM's startup incubator.

Java Spring REST PostgreSQL ML

03. Tech Stack

Languages

Java
Go
SQL
Python

Cloud & DevOps

AWS
Kubernetes
Docker
Terraform

Frameworks

Spring Boot
Kafka
gRPC
REST APIs
📎

Databases

PostgreSQL
Redis
Oracle
MongoDB
💰

Payments & Fintech

Visa / Mastercard
3DS2 / Tokenization
PCI-DSS
Core Banking
🤖

Architecture & AI

DDD / CQRS / Saga
Event-Driven
RAG Pipelines
LLM Integration

04. Key Achievements

🏦

Bank-to-Bank Migration

Led the full migration of 1M+ cardholders between issuing banks with zero downtime and full regulatory compliance across multiple markets.

💳

Payment Scheme Integrations

Architected and delivered direct integrations with Visa (VTS, Visa Direct), Mastercard (MDES, Mastercard Send), MPGS, and UnionPay.

10K+ TPS Processing

Built real-time payment authorization pipelines handling 10,000+ transactions per second with sub-100ms latency.

🚀

Monolith to Microservices

Decomposed Adobe Workfront's monolith into 30+ independently deployable microservices used by Fortune 500 clients.

Deployment: 4h to 20min

Automated the entire CI/CD pipeline, cutting deployment time by 92% and enabling 3+ releases per day.

🌐

Enterprise Connectors

Built production integrations for Adobe Fusion: Outlook, Salesforce, Jira, Workday — handling 5M+ daily API calls.

05. Blog

Thoughts on engineering, payments, and distributed systems.

Coming Soon Payments

How We Migrated 1M Cardholders With Zero Downtime

A deep dive into the architecture and strategies behind migrating a million cardholders between issuing banks without a single second of service interruption.

Read more →
Coming Soon Architecture

Event-Driven Settlement Systems in Fintech

Why event-driven architecture is the right choice for building settlement and reconciliation systems, and the patterns that make it work at scale.

Read more →
Coming Soon Java vs Go

When to Use Go Over Java in Payment Systems

After years of working with both languages in production payment systems, here's my framework for choosing the right tool for each microservice.

Read more →

06. Get in Touch

I'm currently open to Remote B2B contracts for Senior Java Developer / Lead Go Developer roles, especially in fintech and payments.

Whether you have a question, a project, or just want to say hi — my inbox is always open.

Available for Remote B2B contracts