Technology Innovation Manager at Helipagos

January 1, 2025 - June 1, 2025

Role Summary

Focused on analyzing, optimizing, and shipping improvements across Helipagos’ product suite. Worked across the full stack — frontend, backend, infrastructure, and CI/CD — with ownership over high-impact technical decisions.

Key Contributions

Payment Button Redesign: Led the full rearchitecture of Helipagos’ flagship white-label product. Replaced a 3-day manual onboarding process with a database-driven configuration system, reducing setup time to under 30 minutes. Built CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Ansible; sandbox deployments run without human intervention.
TOTOP Microservice: Designed and built a microservice using Kotlin, Spring Boot, and GraalVM, improving processing efficiency for a core payment flow.
Kotlin Product Prototype: Developed the preliminary Kotlin version of a key Helipagos product, establishing the technical foundation for future development.
AWS Lambda Features: Delivered core backend functionality using serverless architecture, reducing operational overhead on critical workflows.
Integration Automation: Built internal integration scripts to connect Helipagos products, eliminating manual handoffs between systems.

Technologies

Languages: Kotlin, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python
Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, Lambda), Docker, Nginx, Linux
Frameworks: Spring Boot, Angular, Next.js
DevOps: GitHub Actions, Ansible, Jira