ADAY MESA
Las Palmas
Summary
Senior Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience building distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven platforms in fintech, payments, fraud prevention, and large-scale digital products. Led anti-fraud engineering teams, built card and onboarding platforms, and delivered high-availability systems handling mission-critical financial workflows. Strong background in Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Kafka, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architectures. Experienced in remote-first, high-performance engineering teams.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer - Tech Lead Anti-Fraud
SadaPay
Dubai
03.2021 - 07.2024
- Led the Anti-Fraud engineering team and owned the fraud detection platform.
- Built AI-powered fraud detection services intercepting over 95% of fraudulent transactions within six months.
- Designed real-time transaction monitoring pipelines using event-driven architecture.
- Built scalable microservices handling sensitive financial data with high availability and low latency.
- Collaborated with product, compliance, and data teams on fraud prevention strategy.
Senior Backend Engineer - Card Platform
SadaPay
- Integrated Mastercard APIs for card issuing, lifecycle management, and transaction processing.
- Owned card ordering and delivery workflows and resolved critical system failures affecting customers.
- Designed resilient backend services for card operations using fault-tolerant distributed architecture.
Senior Backend Engineer - Onboarding Platform
SadaPay
- Built onboarding microservices supporting KYC and customer verification flows.
- Standardized testing and CI pipelines across the onboarding platform.
- Reduced production incidents through TDD and test automation.
Senior Consultant Software Engineer
Thoughtworks
Berlin
10.2020 - 03.2021
- Built micro-frontend widgets using Single SPA for Zalando partner dashboards.
- Integrated multiple partner data streams into unified reporting tables.
Consultant Software Engineer
Thoughtworks
Berlin
02.2019 - 10.2020
- Contributed to backend platform integration for the merger of Germany's two largest car-sharing companies.
- Built distributed services supporting fleet, booking, and payment operations.
- Developed statistical and data-driven tooling for pricing optimization used by the commercial team.
- Pioneered microservices and cloud infrastructure adoption.
Software Engineer
BITBOX S.L
Las Palmas
08.2018 - 01.2019
- Built and maintained the POS platform for IKEA Canary Islands retail operations.
Junior Consultant Software Developer
Thoughtworks
Barcelona
01.2017 - 06.2018
- Built cloud microservices and frontend applications.
- Practiced TDD, CI/CD, and Agile delivery.
Software Engineer - E-commerce Platform & Automation (Freelance, Part-Time)
Bohemefolk
01.2025
- Built Bohemefolk's Shopify website and integrated Etsy and eBay marketplaces into a unified sales platform.
- Developed an AI-powered listing automation tool using Node.js, Express, SQLite, OpenAI API, and Sharp, reducing listing time by 65%.
- Implemented automation for inventory, pricing, and product publishing workflows.
- Owned all technical operations and platform integrations, enabling scalable daily order processing.
Education
Full Stack Software Engineering - undefined
Makers Academy
BA (Hons) - Business & Marketing
Universidad Internacional de Canarias
Skills
- Java
- Kotlin
- Spring Boot
- Microservices
- Distributed Systems
- Event-Driven Architecture
- REST APIs
- React
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- CI/CD
- Cloud-Native Architecture
- Kafka
- PostgreSQL
- SQL
- TDD
- Unit & Integration Testing
- Mockito
- Jest
- SOLID
- Clean Architecture
- Agile
- XP
Languages
Spanish
English
Personal Information
Title: Senior Backend / Full Stack Engineer (Distributed Systems)
Work Availability
monday
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morning
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Timeline
Software Engineer - E-commerce Platform & Automation (Freelance, Part-Time)
Bohemefolk
01.2025
Senior Software Engineer - Tech Lead Anti-Fraud
SadaPay
03.2021 - 07.2024
Senior Consultant Software Engineer
Thoughtworks
10.2020 - 03.2021
Consultant Software Engineer
Thoughtworks
02.2019 - 10.2020
Software Engineer
BITBOX S.L
08.2018 - 01.2019
Junior Consultant Software Developer
Thoughtworks
01.2017 - 06.2018
Senior Backend Engineer - Card Platform
SadaPay
Senior Backend Engineer - Onboarding Platform
SadaPay
Full Stack Software Engineering - undefined
Makers Academy
BA (Hons) - Business & Marketing
Universidad Internacional de Canarias