Own the end-to-end architecture of a high-volume Java microservices cloud platform processing millions of daily transactions. Design distributed systems, data and service architectures, reliability practices, and cloud infrastructure while addressing architectural debt and regulatory requirements. Establish Java, database, observability, and security standards; lead architecture reviews; and guide scalability, resilience, and cost optimization. Build and mentor engineering teams, manage vendors, develop technology roadmaps, and communicate technical strategy to executives and regulators.

Design, automate, and optimize GCP cloud infrastructure supporting machine learning operations. Build CI/CD, data, feature, monitoring, and observability pipelines; improve inference performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency; troubleshoot production systems; and implement deployment, security, logging, and governance best practices for real-money gaming environments.