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How American Express Migrated Its Payment Network—Twice, with Zero Downtime

Benjamin CaneTristan Fuentes17 minutes
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We’ve got 99 problems (but downtime ain’t one): Learn how the Payment Network team migrated live payment traffic—twice—without downtime. This session covers the architecture, rollout strategy, and automation that enabled seamless transitions across platforms and Kubernetes infrastructure.

Tristan Fuentes, Principal Engineer, American Express

Software engineer within the financial services industry for 18+ years focused on delivery and operations of mission critical platforms.

Benjamin Cane, Distinguished Engineer, American Express

Benjamin Cane is a Distinguished Engineer at American Express, where he plays a pivotal role driving the technical architecture and engineering excellence within the Global Merchant & Network Services Technology team. With a focus on payments, Ben specializes in building high performance, low latency distributed systems. His expertise has been instrumental in driving the evolution of American Express’ cloud-native payments platform. Beyond his contributions to American Express, Ben is an active open-source community member and has contributed to various projects.

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