Building high-performance, scalable, and resilient systems for financial and mission-critical environments.
With 15+ years of experience, I specialize in event-driven architectures, high-throughput data pipelines, and cloud-native microservices, combining strong backend engineering with modern AI-driven workflows.
- Design and build distributed systems at scale
- Architect event-driven platforms (Kafka, MQ, streaming)
- Develop high-performance APIs (REST, gRPC, GraphQL)
- Optimize batch processing (millions/billions of records)
- Integrate Generative AI into real systems
- Support pre-sales, architecture decisions, and technical leadership
- Microservices & DDD (Hexagonal Architecture)
- Event-Driven Architecture & Saga Pattern
- REST, gRPC, GraphQL
- Avro, Protobuf, Schema Registry
- Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ
- AWS, Azure, OpenShift
- CI/CD pipelines, containerized environments
- Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB
- High-performance data modeling & processing
- Spring AI, OpenAI, Claude
- MCP (Model Context Protocol – servers/clients)
- AI automation with Python & N8N
- GenAI-assisted development workflows
- Solidity, Ethereum, Bitcoin
- Cryptography: AES, RSA, DUKPT, HSM
- Rust & Go for crypto systems
- Micrometer, OpenTelemetry
- Resilience4J, Circuit Breakers, Retry patterns
- Rate limiting (Bucket4J)
- 💳 Financial Systems (Clearing, Settlement, Middleware)
- 📡 Distributed Event Processing
- ☁️ Cloud-native platforms
- 🤖 AI-powered systems & integrations
- 📚 Digital repositories (DSpace, OJS)
- Clean Architecture & scalability-first design
- Performance optimization & concurrency
- Production-ready systems thinking
- Strong ownership, communication & leadership
- 💼 LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kelson-anthony
- 🧑💻 GitHub: https://github.com/kelsonthony
⭐ "I build systems that scale, evolve, and handle real-world complexity."