⇄ NuFlights

Airline retailing on the IATA NDC standard — cloud SaaS for the air-travel industry, registered in Doha, Qatar. I built the entire product from scratch during my Reckonsys tenure, then returned as Principal Architect, Platform (2023–26) to scale it.

The Rust rewrite

The headline: rewriting the NDC adapter from Python to Rust — async-graphql, sea-orm, yaserde — for performance, efficiency, and maintainability on complex NDC content exchange. Backend services spanned Django/GraphQL and Rust behind a Tyk API gateway.

The platform work

Led the migration from AWS Copilot/ECS Fargate to EKS with ArgoCD GitOps, on a two-cluster topology: a PCI-scoped gateway cluster and a platform cluster, VPC-peered. Ran the PCI DSS 4.0 compliance and remediation program. Rebuilt identity on Casdoor (OIDC) with Redis-backed token resolution and JWT slimming via a BFF re-signing service written in Rust. Along the way: Pod Identity/IRSA replacing static credentials, CloudNativePG for the non-CDE databases, and ExternalDNS replacing a Lambda-based service discovery sync.

Protocol work; very real flights.