Context

  • Environment: Multi-IL (multiple impact levels), on-prem, and GovCloud for government clients.
  • Role: Architect and lead for a full-stack development team on greenfield project, providing platform support.

Challenge

  • Lead full-stack development of a greenfield risk platform requiring cross-boundary data sharing and air-gapped operations.
  • Integrate complex graph relationships with change data capture (CDC) pipelines and fine-grained access controls.
  • Evolve system from a functional POC to a production-hardened distributed system.
  • Successfully architect deployments across both on-premise and GovCloud environments.

Architecture

  • Event-driven risk platform utilizing Golang, React.js, Neo4j, Postgres, Elasticsearch, and Kafka.
  • Kubernetes clusters with Istio service mesh, Gitlab, ArgoCD, and Platform One BigBang services.

Operational Model

  • Work directly with customer to define functional requirements.
  • Lead full-stack development.

Outcomes

  • Delivered a production-ready platform aligned to federal security controls and multi-IL operational constraints.