Work
Federal Reserve connectivity for a payments platform
The on-premises Fed connection and the encryption pipeline around it, built at Finzly for banks moving domestic and foreign-exchange payments.
- Period
- 2021—2022
- Role
- Led the implementation
- Stack
- Java · AWS Step Functions · mTLS · PGP
Connecting a payments platform to the Federal Reserve is mostly not a coding problem. It happens in a customer data center, on their hardware, under their change control, and the failure mode is a bank’s transactions not settling.
What I led
The connection setup itself, as the main technical point of contact for Fed implementations. Around it, an event-driven file encryption and decryption service — Step Functions orchestrating the stages, replacing a manual process that someone had to remember to run.
Integration and posture
API integrations with external core banking vendors ran over mTLS. The wider work was security posture: Log4j2 remediation as it broke, SOC 2 readiness, and disaster recovery exercises that ended up in the standard evidence package shown to prospective clients during onboarding.