C. James Ekhator

Platform engineering across private and public cloud for SOX-regulated banking services. Jenkins, Spinnaker, Terraform, AWS (Lambda, ECS, Step Functions), Cloud Foundry.

• Architected agentic AI workflow + chat dashboard on Amazon Bedrock and JPMC's CDAO Smart SDK, with autonomous Jira ticket completion via job-type-routed agents (extensible across Grafana, SonarQube, ServiceNow integrations) with extended-thinking validation, plus a developer console surfacing cross-repo context, SEAL/FID credentials, entitlements, and regulatory information through knowledge-base-grounded LLM queries
• Architected blue-green deployment strategy with automated database migration rollbacks for zero-downtime releases across SOX-regulated banking services
• Designed end-to-end CI/CD pipelines (Jenkinsfile + Spinnaker + custom Git branching) supporting ~1-hour production lead time for backend Django and Java/Spring services
• Engineered Celery + RabbitMQ async task processing with multi-layer health-check endpoints for proactive incident detection
• Built backend API routes via Django views and DRF serializers, extending banking services with new endpoints under RBAC + SOX-aligned access controls
• Built large-scale data processing pipelines on AWS EMR, Kinesis, Glue, and Athena, supporting real-time and batch analytics for cross-team consumers
• Provisioned AWS Lambda, ECS tasks, and Step Functions workflows with Terraform (IaC), automating cross-account event handling via EventBridge and SNS alerting
• Integrated PyTest integration test suite as CI/CD quality gate over Django banking-service routes, blocking deployments on regression

Sole-developer build of HIPAA-aligned healthcare platform. Django REST Framework + React/TypeScript → Cloud Build (19-step CI/CD) → GCP/AWS.

• Architected HIPAA-aligned healthcare platform end-to-end (Django REST API + React/TypeScript) and built a 19-step Cloud Build CI/CD pipeline with automated rollback management and distributed locking, eliminating concurrent-deploy race conditions
• Engineered JWT authentication with RBAC across 4 clinical role tiers (Nurse, Supervisor, Admin, Support), token rotation, blacklisting, and comprehensive audit trails with 7-year retention for HIPAA compliance