{"id":598,"date":"2026-09-20T16:40:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T20:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/nsing008\/?page_id=598"},"modified":"2026-09-20T16:51:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T20:51:36","slug":"research-focus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/nsing008\/?page_id=598","title":{"rendered":"Research &amp; Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- RESEARCH &amp; FOCUS PAGE -->\n\n<h2>Research Interests<\/h2>\n<p>\n  My research within the Engineering Management and Systems Engineering (EMSE) Department at Old Dominion University focuses on the architectural resilience, performance optimization, and integration strategies of enterprise-scale distributed systems.\n<\/p>\n\n<hr style=\"border: 0;border-top: 1px solid #ccc;margin: 25px 0\">\n\n<h3>Primary Focus Areas<\/h3>\n\n<h4>1. Microservices &amp; Serverless Computing<\/h4>\n<p>Developing fault-tolerant, event-driven architectures utilizing AWS Step Functions, Lambda, and EventBridge to minimize system coupling and latency in high-volume environments.<\/p>\n\n<h4>2. API Security &amp; Identity Management<\/h4>\n<p>Designing robust zero-trust security layers for microservices using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for secure federated data exchange across regulatory boundaries.<\/p>\n\n<h4>3. Data Interoperability &amp; Standardization<\/h4>\n<p>Bridging legacy system architectures with modern cloud endpoints using standardized data formats (e.g., LIMRA LDEx) and contract-first API management strategies.<\/p>\n\n<h4>4. DevSecOps &amp; Continuous Delivery<\/h4>\n<p>Engineering automated CI\/CD deployment pipelines incorporating security scanning, sub-second API performance monitoring, and zero-downtime deployment patterns.<\/p>\n\n<hr style=\"border: 0;border-top: 1px solid #ccc;margin: 25px 0\">\n\n<h3>Technical Seminars &amp; Workshops<\/h3>\n<ul>\n  <li><strong>Hybrid Cloud Connectivity:<\/strong> Architectural patterns for bridging on-premises legacy systems with public cloud platforms.<\/li>\n  <li><strong>Contract-First API Design:<\/strong> OpenAPI\/RAML-driven specifications for enterprise-wide integration teams.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Interests My research within the Engineering Management and Systems Engineering (EMSE) Department at Old Dominion University focuses on the architectural resilience, performance optimization, and integration strategies of enterprise-scale distributed systems. Primary Focus Areas 1. Microservices &amp; Serverless Computing Developing&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/nsing008\/?page_id=598\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24201,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/nsing008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/nsing008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/nsing008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/nsing008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/nsing008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/nsing008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/nsing008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/598\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/nsing008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}