17 years designing, building and operating platforms that can't afford to be down — casino management, national broadcasting, payments, ERP integration and government data — on SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL and high-availability Linux/Windows infrastructure. I stay hands-on from schema to incident response.
Card IDs are the real internal system codes. Everything here is production work delivered end to end — architecture, code, deployment and operations — unless marked as a reference build.
Architected and built the system operating the Regency and Imperial casinos: Node.js/Express + React, a reporting engine (Puppeteer/ExcelJS/docx), maker-checker permission workflows, PostgreSQL↔SQL Server stored-procedure ETL sync, and an API gateway secured with mTLS (step-ca), RS256 JWTs and EMQX-driven asynchronous AML workflows.
Designed the OTT origin infrastructure for Albania's national broadcaster: HAProxy/keepalived failover behind Cloudflare, with a real-time Node.js/React analytics dashboard giving the operations team live visibility into delivery.
Delivered four server-authoritative TypeScript slot titles, a multi-game live casino platform (Hold'em, Omaha, Baccarat, Blackjack) built as a three-frontend Turborepo monorepo, and a real-time floor monitor speaking the SAS 5.01 wire protocol — fixed-format framing, control numbers and acknowledgment discipline.
Headed the multi-year engagement for Novomatic's Tirana operations: implemented Microsoft Dynamics and connected the group's casino clubs into the central system through SSIS integration packages and structured venue-to-HQ EDI — with logging, error handling, restartability and reconciliation.
Recurring acquisition of Albanian public procurement data into a warehouse built on PostgreSQL, MinIO (S3-compatible raw-capture preservation) and Neo4j for entity relationships — with a data-steward review console so human validation feeds back into data quality.
A complete 850/855/856/810 integration stack prepared as a demonstration: C# SSIS Script Source parser, idempotent control schema (interchange/transaction logs keyed on control numbers), set-based T-SQL validation gate, element-level mapping specifications against Dynamics GP, and an operations dashboard for error queues and 997 acknowledgment aging.
Designed a modular Oracle-based tolling architecture for national highway operations, with high-availability payment gateways — transaction integrity and failover treated as first-class requirements, not afterthoughts.
Lead forensics and recovery for the group: full server rebuilds after a zero-day control-panel compromise, eradication of long-running intrusions (webshells, rogue mailboxes), hardening with fail2ban and WAF policy, BIND9 split-horizon DNS, and DKIM/SPF/DMARC mail authentication across all group domains.
SQL Server · Always On — Oracle · Data Guard — PostgreSQL — MariaDB/MySQL — Neo4j — PL/SQL · T-SQL
Microsoft Dynamics — SSIS — EDI · X12 — ETL pipelines — eConnect-style ERP load patterns
TypeScript / Node.js — Python — .NET — Java — React — PHP
EMQX / MQTT — MinIO (S3 API) — real-time analytics — reporting engines (Puppeteer / ExcelJS)
Linux (Ubuntu / Alma / Rocky / Debian) — Windows Server — KVM — Docker — Nginx — HAProxy · keepalived — Cloudflare
Incident response & forensics — mTLS · PKI — JWT / OAuth — hardening · fail2ban — BIND9 DNS — DKIM / SPF / DMARC
LLM integration — on-prem inference — TTS pipelines — agentic developer workflows
Group-wide technical authority for architecture, infrastructure, software delivery and security across 13 companies. Concurrently General Director of TemaTV, the group's online media operation.
Business-process automation, database and data-flow design, and customer-driven system integrations. Flagship engagement: headed the 2012–2015 Microsoft Dynamics implementation and casino club integration for Novomatic Group's Tirana operations.
Standardized IFRS group reporting and statutory submissions to the Bank of Albania; automated reconciliations; built the reporting stack on Oracle 10g and SQL Server. Trained at Crédit Agricole Paris on IFRS chart-of-accounts mapping.
PL/SQL reporting on the Aton PDM system for the Armed Forces modernization program; delivered the E-Parts restructuring solution and RFC00079 web reporting across PL/SQL, SQL Server and MySQL.
Professional training: SQL Server DBA · Oracle DBA · IFRS Reporting · Crédit Agricole S.A., Paris.