Erik Vasquez

Fullstack engineer building scalable systems in the Java & Spring Boot ecosystem — from monolithic applications to distributed architectures.

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Erik Vasquez

Education

Kennesaw State University

Aug 2023 — Dec 2025

B.S. in Computer Science

Data Structures Database Systems Algorithm Analysis Parallel & Distributed Computing Cloud Computing Data Communications

Dalton State College

Aug 2020 — May 2023

Associates in Science

Featured Projects

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Newsient

A microservices event-intelligence platform that ingests breaking news, enriches it with AI, and maps relationships in a Neo4j knowledge graph.

Built an async pipeline (news-ingestion -> ai-service -> graph-service) with RabbitMQ queues, OpenAI-powered entity extraction, and semantic deduplication using Neo4j vector search to find potential duplicates and related candidates. Exposed graph query APIs for search, related-event traversal, and recent summaries.

Java 25 · Spring Boot 4.0 · Spring AI · RabbitMQ · Neo4j · PostgreSQL · Docker Compose · Jenkins
Live Java RabbitMQ Neo4j
network-monitoring-system

A real-time network monitoring dashboard that captures network activity and streams live metrics to the UI via WebSocket.

Designed a pipeline from packet capture to WebSocket (STOMP) updates, delivering refreshed metrics every 1-2 seconds. Implemented batching to support 1,000+ packets/second without UI freezes.

Java 21 · Spring Boot 3.2 · Pcap4J · Maven · Chart.js · HTML · CSS

Network Monitoring Dashboard
Java Spring Boot WebSocket
Erik-DEV

The codebase for this portfolio site. Built as a clean, single-page experience.

Features a fully responsive design and interactive project grid.

Java 25 · Spring Boot 4.0 · Thymeleaf · Maven · Tailwind CSS · HTML · Javascript
Live Java Spring Boot Thymeleaf
MicroBoot

A Spring Boot generator creating production-ready microservice architectures with custom boilerplate.

Refactored template loading to use 8KB streaming chunks to prevent memory overflow exceptions. Automates scaffolding for API Gateway, Eureka, and Dockerized services.

Java 25 · Spring Boot 4.0 · Spring Cloud · Spring Security 6 · Docker · React.js · Typescript

MicroBoot Front Page
Java Spring Cloud Docker
Distributed-Matrix-Multiplication...

Implementation of Strassen's algorithm for matrix multiplication across distributed systems.

Coordinated multiple worker nodes over TCP/IP to balance load. Achieved a ~2.4x speedup by scaling from 1 to 4 nodes.

Java 21 · TCP/IP · IO/NIO API · Log4J · Maven · Multithreading · Distributed Computing

Matrix Logic
Java TCP/IP NIO
Simple-Blog-App

Full-stack blog platform with Keycloak authentication and integrated commenting system.

Implemented role-based access control with Spring Security/Keycloak. Optimized Blog requests with pagination, reducing page load times by ~40-60%.

Java 21 · Spring Boot · Spring Security 6 · KeyCloak · Spring Data JPA · MySQL
Java Keycloak Spring Security

Reading

Books that shaped my engineering perspective. Click a card to read my take.

Effective Java

Effective Java

Joshua Bloch

A guide to Java programming best practices. Honestly covers a lot of topics that I may not come across day to day but are very useful to refer to. 10/10 recommend to all Java developers.

Distributed Computing

Distributed Computing: Principles and Applications

M. L. Liu

Provides an introduction to distributed computing concepts, distributed systems architecture, and real-world applications. 10/10 for anyone learning distributed systems.

Java Concurrency in Practice

Java Concurrency in Practice

Brian Goetz

An essential guide to writing thread-safe Java programs. Covers the Java Memory Model, concurrent collections, and best practices for parallel programming.

Get in Touch

I'm always interested in hearing about new projects, opportunities, or just a hello :)

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