Summary
Aylon Armstrong is a Senior Software Engineer based in Austin with 10 years building scalable, production-grade systems across payments, authentication, and user services. He led a team to design a payments and entitlements platform using NestJS, MySQL, Redis, and Kubernetes, and helped migrate infrastructure from bare-metal AWS to GCP Kubernetes while integrating Stripe to process over $100M in transactions. Aylon built a YouTube-like preference service used by 1M+ users and authored fraud detection tooling that reduced stolen-card abuse, demonstrating both product sensitivity and operational rigor. He mentors junior engineers, acts as SME for user management and auditing, and has maintained entrepreneurial side projects including open-source Minecraft mod work with millions of downloads. Known for turning multi-month rewrites into rapid deliveries, he balances hands-on coding with system design and DevOps collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, 3.56 GPA, High School, 3.56 GPA at Gilmer High School