Summary
Melville S is a seasoned software architect and full-stack developer with over two decades of hands-on experience building scalable customer-facing and internal systems, and nearly a decade focused on modern cloud-native architectures. As owner of DLF Systems and a longtime mobile developer at Velos Mobile, he blends native iOS/Android expertise with Typescript/React front ends and robust REST/GraphQL back ends. He specializes in event-driven, serverless AWS solutions—Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge, Kinesis—and pragmatic microservices/CQRS patterns, often leveraging John Gilbert's Lambda Stream library. Uncommonly for an architect, he also brings deep operational knowledge of media pipelines, custom FFMPEG encoding, and Elemental Media services to enable HLS/DASH streaming at scale. Based in Eugene, Oregon, Melville is comfortable moving between low-level protocol and encoding details up to high-level API and system design, helping teams turn complex requirements into reliable production systems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at West Virginia University