I'm Luis De Freitas

Solution Architect

I'm a Solution Architect

  • Name: Luis De Freitas
  • Job: Solution Architect
  • Residence: United States
  • Hometown: NC

Hands-on driven and innovative information technology professional with over 15 years of professional experience delivering enterprise solutions on time and budget for the finance industry; highly familiar with software development stack(s) as well as infrastructure on prem/public cloud.

My Latest Experience

  • CastleBranch

    Solution Architect 2020-Current

    • Scope and design enterprise solutions that have allowed business to reduce considerably release of new products to the market
    • Design solutions that have improved our internal processes resulting in cost saving across the enterprise
    • Design solutions within the scope of requirements but robust enough to account for future business needs
    • Design and develop POC that have allowed business/engineering to justify work and products
    • Justify work with managers, c-level executives as well as architectural review board

  • Citizens Bank

    Risk Applications Solution Architect 2017-2020

    • Detail design, sizing, and scope of an AWS cloud loss forecasting solution to comply with new federal regulation (CECL)
    • Manage multiple integration projects related to monitoring and compliance around the organization (FIS, Pega CCS, Digital Safe)
    • Develop and maintain application and platform roadmaps to support business and IT Strategies such as loss forecasting, monitoring, and compliance
    • Coordinate and support disaster recovery activities for all the risk applications portfolio (OnPrem, Cloud, and Vendor Apps)
    • Develop detailed solution architectural documents and diagrams that were presented to management, product owners, and ARB
    • Provide guidance and consultation on technical issues as subject matter expert for application in the Risk Portfolio

  • Rhode Island Student Loan Authority

    Information Security Administrator / IT Developer 2007-2017

    • Development and support the security program for the authority: physical and logical controls, penetration testing, documentation, resolve of outstanding issues, PCI, GLBA, Soc1 Type 1 certifications, and work with multiple vendors to keep RISLA security program up to date
    • Development and support of web pages and Windows Forms (RISLA.COM, CPCRI.ORG)
    • Development and support of web pages and windows forms for student loans
    • Development and support of interfaces (APIs) between RISLA and multiple entities (Examples: Experian, Docusign, Bridge.Jobz)
    • DBA – Sql Server 2000, 2005, 2008, 2012 (Installation, configuration, migrations, and maintenance)
    • Development and support the business continuity plan for the organization
    • Extract, transformation, and load (ETL) routines for different systems (DTS, SSIS)
    • Install, configuration and use of SSRS
    • Development of technical/user documentation for developed applications and programs

My Education

  • New England Tech - USA

    Software Engineer
  • New Professions University - Venezuela

    Computer Science

My Latest Training

  • A Cloud Guru - AWS Certification Training‎

    AWS Solution Architect, AWS Certified Big Data, AWS Solution Developer, Kubernetes Fundamentals, Mastering the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Kubernetes Deep Dive
  • Udemy‎

    GraphQL, AWS Terraform, Introduction to Service Management with ITIL 4, AWS DynamoDB - The Complete Guide, Microservices Architecture - The Complete Guide, Microservices Security - The Complete Guide
  • Citizens Bank

    Multiple Agile Workshops

My Skills

  • OS

    Windows, Unix, Linux
  • Programming

    Microsoft .NET, Java, Java Script, PHP, Python
  • Data Bases

    Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redshift, Postgress
  • Cloud

    AWS, RackSpace