Rodrigo Alejandro Rocha Díaz

Microservices Architecture & Distributed Systems

• Domain Modeling & DDD: Applied Domain-Driven Design (DDD) to define domains, subdomains, and Bounded Contexts, ensuring a well-structured, scalable, and business-aligned system architecture.
• API Design & Communication Patterns: Developed APIs and microservices utilizing GraphQL, REST, gRPC, WebSockets, and OData to optimize interoperability, flexibility, and real-time interactions.
• Event-Driven Architecture: Designed and implemented event-driven systems using message brokers, event streaming platforms (Kafka, Kinesis), and event buses for real-time data processing and decoupled services.
• Distributed Transactions: Implemented SAGA patterns (orchestration & choreography) to maintain data integrity across distributed systems.
• API Provider & API Composer Patterns: Designed modular, reusable API endpoints to unify data across multiple microservices, ensuring secure and efficient consumption for internal and external clients.

Data Modeling, Persistence & Optimization

• Database Selection & Optimization: Designed and optimized relational databases, NoSQL, key-value (Redis), and in-memory solutions to meet business needs efficiently.
• Change Data Capture (CDC): Implemented real-time data synchronization across microservices and databases using CDC patterns.

AI & Innovation – Generative AI Architectures

• Generative AI & Amazon Bedrock: Led Generative AI projects using Amazon Bedrock, developing AI agents with Action Groups, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Text-to-SQL processing, and search optimization with vector embeddings.
• AI Integration in Business Processes: Designed and deployed AI-driven automation workflows, improving operational efficiency and decision-making.
• Prompt Engineering & AI Optimization: Applied advanced prompt engineering techniques to enhance accuracy and context-awareness of AI-generated responses.

Security & Best Practices

• API & Data Security: Designed secure API architectures implementing API Gateway, Identity Providers, OAuth 2.0, JWT, and role-based access control (RBAC) to ensure authentication, authorization, and data protection.
• Microservices Security Strategies: Applied Zero-Trust Security Models to secure inter-service communication and sensitive data handling.

Cloud-Native Architecture & Serverless Solutions

• AWS Cloud-Native Architectures: Designed and implemented serverless and cloud-native solutions using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SNS, SES, SQS, Glue, Step Functions, EventBridge, RDS, and DynamoDB, ensuring high scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency.
• Cost Optimization & FinOps: Applied FinOps best practices, leveraging AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, and data lifecycle policies to optimize cloud expenses and resource utilization.
• Serverless Best Practices: Designed architectures with event-driven, auto-scaling, and pay-per-use models, minimizing operational overhead and maximizing efficiency.

Hybrid & Legacy Migration to AWS

• Legacy Application Migration: Led the migration of on-premises applications to AWS, ensuring minimal downtime and operational efficiency improvements.
• AWS Migration Services: Utilized AWS Migration Hub, MGN (AWS Application Migration Service), and DMS (AWS Database Migration Service) to modernize infrastructure, databases, and workloads.
• Hybrid Cloud Integration: Designed hybrid architectures to seamlessly integrate on-premises environments with AWS services, enabling a gradual transition to the cloud.

AWS Cost Optimization & FinOps

• Cost Management Strategies: Implemented FinOps best practices, leveraging AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, and data lifecycle policies in Amazon S3 to optimize cloud expenses and resource utilization.
• Serverless Cost Efficiency: Designed highly scalable, low-cost serverless solutions that automatically scale based on demand, reducing unnecessary operational overhead.API Governance & Best Practices: Led the design, governance, and standardization of public and private APIs, ensuring best practices in API construction, security, and lifecycle management.

Leadership & Business Alignment

• Business & Technical Collaboration: Partnered with developers, engineers, and business stakeholders to design and implement scalable solutions aligned with strategic objectives.
• Solution Analysis & Business Requirements: Evaluated technical proposals, ensuring solutions met business needs while adhering to Nissan’s architectural guidelines.
• Executive Communication: Translated complex technical concepts into non-technical language for business executives, enabling effective decision-making and strategic alignment.
• Understanding Business Processes & Objectives: Maintained a deep understanding of business needs, operational challenges, and future objectives, proactively designing adaptable and future-proof solutions.

Enterprise Architecture Governance & API Strategy & ERB

• Architecture Evaluation & Standardization: As a key member of Nissan Mexico’s Enterprise Review Board (ERB), reviewed and approved regional technology architectures, ensuring compliance with enterprise architecture standards and best practices.
• Technology Adoption & Innovation: Played a strategic role in assessing new technologies, ensuring Nissan’s long-term digital transformation strategy aligns with industry trends.
• Architecture Review & Approval: Responsible for presenting cloud-native and distributed architectures in collaboration with the Nissan USA team, ensuring project approvals within the delivery area of Nissan Mexico.

Software Architecture & System Design

• Designed and implemented scalable, resilient, and cloud-native architectures, aligning with microservices, event-driven, and service-oriented (SOA) principles to meet business and technical objectives.
• Led end-to-end architecture design for distributed systems, ensuring modular, maintainable, and cost-optimized solutions.
• Defined governance models, best practices, and architectural standards to streamline system design across teams.

Architectural Patterns & Design Principles

• Applied Domain-Driven Design (DDD) to define bounded contexts, domain models, and service boundaries, ensuring modular, scalable, and business-aligned architectures.
• Implemented CQRS, Event Sourcing, Backend for Frontend (BFF), Saga Patterns, Message Brokers, Change Data Capture (CDC), Identity Provider, Database-Per-Service, and Multi-Model Architectures (relational, document-based, and in-memory).
• Designed multi-architectural API strategies integrating REST, GraphQL, and gRPC, and adopted Hexagonal Architecture (Ports and Adapters) to ensure high decoupling and maintainability.

AWS Cloud-Native & Serverless Architecture (AWS)

• Architected serverless cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Step Functions, S3, EventBridge, SNS, and SQS, ensuring auto-scaling, high availability, and cost-efficiency.
• Implemented event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing using AWS EventBridge, SNS, SQS, and Step Functions, optimizing system reliability and throughput.
• Established security best practices with IAM, Cognito, OAuth 2.0, and JWT, ensuring robust access control and compliance in cloud environments.
• Optimized cloud performance and cost management through AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, and lifecycle policies, applying FinOps strategies.

Programming Paradigms & Technical Leadership

• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP): Designed structured, reusable, and maintainable software solutions following SOLID and GRASP principles.
• Functional Programming: Developed pure functions and immutable data structures to improve code efficiency and predictability.
• Reactive & Functional Reactive Programming: Engineered high-performance asynchronous data flows and real-time event-driven systems using RxJS, Kafka, and AWS EventBridge.
• Multilingual & Cross-Platform Development: Designed and developed applications across Java, JavaScript (ReactJS, RxJS, ApolloJS), Rust, and Python, ensuring interoperability, performance, and maintainability using static and dynamic code analysis tools.

Enterprise API Strategy & Integration

• Designed and managed public and private APIs, implementing API Gateway, API Provider, and API Composer patterns to ensure scalability, security, and efficient data exposure.
• Integrated authentication and authorization frameworks (OAuth 2.0, JWT, Single Sign-On) into API designs to ensure secure service interactions.
• Developed resilient and scalable service integrations using message brokers (Kafka), streaming platforms, and event buses.

Leadership, Governance & Collaboration

• Led cross-functional teams, driving technical decisions, architecture reviews, and system designs aligned with business goals.
• Established best practices and technical roadmaps for teams, ensuring consistency and adoption of modern software paradigms.
• Mentored and upskilled engineers, conducting knowledge-sharing sessions on software architecture, AWS cloud technologies, and microservices best practices.
• Acted as a bridge between technical and business teams, translating complex technical challenges into actionable insights for executives and stakeholders.
  

Microservices Architecture & Implementation

• Technical Leadership in Microservices Development: Led teams in implementing scalable, resilient, and modular microservices, ensuring adherence to architectural patterns and best practices.
• Developer Collaboration & Mentorship: Worked closely with engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentoring, and reviewing microservices implementations to ensure consistency and alignment with business and technical goals.
• Event-Driven System Integration: Designed and managed asynchronous communication strategies using message brokers (RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka) and event-driven patterns such as Choreography Saga and Orchestration Saga to coordinate distributed transactions effectively.

API Architecture & Identity Management

• Multi-Architectural API Design: Developed and maintained multi-architectural APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC) to expose microservice functionalities while ensuring flexibility, security, and high performance.
• Identity & Authentication Management: Implemented Identity Providers, configuring authentication and authorization mechanisms using OAuth 2.0, JWT, and Single Sign-On (SSO) to ensure secure access control.
• API Gateway & Security Policies: Designed and enforced API security policies, integrating API Gateway and access control mechanisms to protect microservices against unauthorized access and threats.

Performance Optimization & Data Management

• Materialized Views for Query Optimization: Designed and developed materialized views to enhance database query performance, reducing latency and improving efficiency in high-volume transactional systems.
• Database Optimization & Best Practices: Worked with relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server) and NoSQL (MongoDB, CouchDB, DynamoDB) databases, applying indexing, caching, and partitioning strategies to optimize read/write performance.
• Change Data Capture (CDC): Integrated real-time data synchronization mechanisms using CDC patterns, enabling seamless updates and data consistency across distributed systems.

Software Quality & Code Review

• Code Review & Best Practices Enforcement: Conducted code reviews using tools like SonarQube, identifying and addressing performance, security, and maintainability issues.
• Application of Software Design Patterns: Led the implementation of structural, behavioral, and creational design patterns (Singleton, Factory, Builder, Observer, Chain of Responsibility, etc.) to enhance code maintainability and reusability.
• Developer Training & Standards Adoption: Provided technical mentorship to development teams, promoting best practices in clean code, SOLID principles, and architectural decisions.

Technical Leadership & Team Coordination

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Acted as a liaison between software engineering, DevOps, security, and product teams, ensuring alignment on architecture decisions, security policies, and deployment strategies.
• Problem-Solving & Decision-Making: Led technical discussions, architecture reviews, and troubleshooting sessions, resolving complex technical challenges to enhance software reliability and performance.
• Agile & DevOps Integration: Fostered agile software development practices, enabling continuous integration, deployment (CI/CD), and automated testing to accelerate software delivery.
• Mentorship & Team Growth: Guided junior and mid-level engineers, providing knowledge-sharing sessions and coaching to cultivate a strong engineering culture.

Service Oriented Architecture & Microservices Architecture & Implementation

• Technical Leadership in Microservices Development: Led cross-functional engineering teams in designing and implementing scalable, resilient, and modular microservices, ensuring alignment with architectural best practices and business requirements.
• Developer Collaboration & Mentorship: Provided technical guidance, mentorship, and code reviews to ensure consistency, code quality, and adherence to design patterns in microservices implementations.
• Event-Driven System Integration: Designed and managed asynchronous event-driven architectures using message brokers (RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka).

API Architecture & Identity Management

• Multi-Architectural API Design: Architected and maintained multi-architectural APIs using SOAP, OData, REST and GraphQL, ensuring flexibility, security, and high-performance communication between services.
• GraphQL Implementation & API Efficiency: Optimized data retrieval by implementing GraphQL APIs, reducing over-fetching and under-fetching of data in complex client-server interactions.
• Identity & Authentication Management: Implemented Identity Providers, configuring authentication and authorization mechanisms using OAuth 2.0, JWT, OIDC and Single Sign-On (SSO) for secure access control.

Performance Optimization & Data Management

• Materialized Views for Query Optimization: Designed and developed materialized views to enhance database query performance, reducing latency and optimizing read operations in high-volume transactional systems.
• Database Optimization & Best Practices: Engineered high-performance relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server).

Full-Stack Development & Frontend Architecture

• React & Redux Frontend Development: Led the development of scalable frontend architectures using React, Redux, and JavaScript, ensuring efficient state management and optimized UI performance.
• Backend Integration with Node.js & .NET Core: Developed and maintained backend services using Node.js and .NET Core, enabling highly performant API-driven applications.
• Asynchronous & Real-Time Communication: Implemented WebSockets, GraphQL subscriptions, and event-driven architectures to handle real-time data processing and streaming.

Software Quality, Code Reviews & Best Practices

• Code Review & Standards Enforcement: Conducted code reviews using SonarQube, ensuring code quality, maintainability, and security compliance.
• Application of Software Design Patterns: Led the implementation of structural, behavioral, and creational design patterns (Singleton, Factory, Builder, Observer, Chain of Responsibility, etc.) to improve modularity and code reusability.
• Developer Training & Knowledge Sharing: Provided mentorship to development teams, promoting SOLID principles, Clean Architecture, and best practices in modern software development.

Technical Leadership & Team Coordination

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Acted as a bridge between engineering, DevOps, security, and product teams, ensuring alignment on architectural decisions, deployment strategies, and security policies.
• Problem-Solving & Decision-Making: Led technical discussions, architecture reviews, and complex troubleshooting sessions, driving innovative solutions to technical challenges.
• Agile & DevOps Culture: Fostered agile methodologies, enabling CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and rapid iterative development for scalable and reliable software delivery.
• Mentorship & Team Growth: Guided junior and mid-level engineers, conducting knowledge-sharing sessions, coaching, and training programs to cultivate a high-performing engineering culture.

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) & API Design

• Designed and implemented service-oriented architectures (SOA), ensuring modular, maintainable, and scalable system design.
• Developed and integrated API architectures, following best practices in SOAP, REST API, and microservices communication.

Software Design Principles & Architectural Patterns

• Applied SOLID principles to enhance software maintainability, flexibility, and extensibility.
• Utilized Clean Architecture to enforce a clear separation of concerns, promoting modularity and long-term scalability.
• Implemented monolithic and distributed database architectures, optimizing data management for both relational (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and key-value stores (Redis).

ETL & Data Integration (SQL Server Integration Services - SSIS)

• Designed and implemented ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) to automate data ingestion, transformation, and migration workflows.
• Optimized data extraction from heterogeneous sources, ensuring data integrity, normalization, and performance in high-volume transactional environments.
• Developed data pipelines for batch and real-time data processing, supporting data warehousing and analytics initiatives.

Programming Paradigms & Code Optimization

• Developed software solutions using Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) for structured design and code reusability.
• Applied Functional Programming (FP) to ensure immutability, higher-order functions, and data transformation efficiency.

Scalability, Performance & Caching Strategies

• Designed high-performance applications leveraging Redis for caching and real-time data processing.
• Optimized query execution and database performance by implementing indexing, partitioning, and materialized views.

JavaScript & Distributed Systems

• Developed scalable and maintainable applications using JavaScript, ensuring interoperability and efficient resource utilization.
• Engineered distributed systems, ensuring reliability and fault tolerance through event-driven architectures and message queuing.
  

• Maintenance and BPM Bizflow management for Prudential Insurance.
• Development of the collection module with Bancomer for Prudential Insurance.
• Development of the policy rehabilitation module for Prudential Insurance.
• Development of the policy cancellation module for Prudential Insurance.
• Development of the subscription module for Prudential Insurance.

• Development of the bank reconciliation project for Banca Mifel.
• Development of the bank reconciliation module for POS and ATM transactions with PROSA and EGlobal from Banca Mifel.
• Development of the bank reconciliation module for TPV commissions and TDD transactions for Banca Mifel.
• Development of the bank reconciliation module for query of clarifications for Banca Mifel.
• Development of the manual processing module for Stat07, Stat06, Posre04, and 512 files from Prosa.
• Development of the automatic processing module for Stat07, Stat06, Posre04, and 512 files from Prosa.
• Development of the real-time transaction monitoring module for Banca Mifel transactions.
• Development of the real-time transaction and connectivity monitoring module for both Authorizers and ATM Cashiers and POS terminals.