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Senior software engineer with 8+ years building scalable web platforms, distributed services and developer tooling. Owns systems end to end, from architecture to CI/CD and observability, and is known for cutting latency and cloud spend.
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Tech lead for the payments platform team (7 engineers) serving 4M monthly users.
- Re-architected the checkout service into event-driven Go microservices, cutting p95 API latency by 62%.
- Led a Kubernetes and Terraform migration that saved roughly $180K a year in cloud costs.
- Introduced contract testing and trunk-based delivery, raising deploy frequency from weekly to 25+ per week.
Full-stack engineer on the B2B analytics SaaS product.
- Built a React and TypeScript dashboard framework reused across 14 product modules.
- Designed a PostgreSQL partitioning strategy for 3B+ rows, making reports 8x faster.
Developer on client-facing web and API projects.
- Delivered 12 REST APIs in Java and Spring Boot and automated regression tests, cutting QA time by 40%.
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Go · Kafka · PostgreSQL · gRPCEvent-driven gateway processing 2M+ transactions a day at 99.98% uptime, with idempotent retries and full audit trails.
React · TypeScript · GraphQLSelf-service portal for service scaffolding, docs and deploy status. It cut new-service setup from 2 days to 20 minutes.
Rust · CLIFast structured-log filtering CLI. 1.2k GitHub stars and 30+ contributors.
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Sample Institute of Technology, 2013 - 2017