Vincent Fazio

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As a solution architect reporting directly to the CTO, I excelled in defining robust application architectures that focused on scalability, information security, reliability, and resiliency. I led daily communications and technical architecture reviews with our product team, offshore development team, and other stakeholders, ensuring seamless implementation and exploration of innovative solutions.

With a strong emphasis on deploying solutions to AWS, the solution included a migration plan from an existing monolithic architecture to a microservices approach. It also included integration with various enterprise SaaS products and headless CMS solutions to drive technological excellence and operational efficiency of the platform.

Deliverables included an architecture diagram with a full description of the application components and a migration plan from the existing architecture. A reference architecture was also created to demonstrate concepts with CloudFormation scripts to build architecture components.

As a data architect, I successfully built an AWS data lakehouse from the ground up, implementing a medallion architecture to handle both near real-time feeds and batch processing from application logs, Salesforce, internal databases, and external systems.

This work included designing secure, performant, and resilient data storage repositories in Parquet and Iceberg with fine-grained data access controls. Glue ETL processes written in PySpark were crucial in delivering valuable data insights to internal and external stakeholders through integrations with Tableau and internal reporting capabilities.

Leading all aspects of development from planning through implementation, I also created and conducted training activities and presentations to communicate the significance of this work to key stakeholders, ensuring widespread understanding and support for the project.

The final deliverables included documentation, including diagrams and descriptions of the Data Lakehouse architecture and all components. Also included were scripts to export all architecture configurations for disaster recovery and change management purposes.