Profile ◆
Twelve years shipping systems that outlive their original authors. I care about the unglamorous layer — queues, migrations, deploy pipelines — because that's where the next 10× of engineer velocity is hiding. Most recently led platform at Shopify; previously built core payments primitives at Stripe.
Experience ◆
01
Staff Engineer, Platform Lead
2020 — Present
Shopify · San Francisco
- Lead a 14-engineer platform team powering the merchant stack for 50M+ businesses across 175 countries.
- Architected the multi-region deploy system cutting release times from 45 minutes to under 6 minutes.
- Drove a Rails monolith decomposition that shaved p99 checkout latency by 38% during BFCM peak.
- Author of the internal design doc practice now used by all engineering ICs company-wide.
02
Senior Software Engineer
2016 — 2020
Stripe · Payments Infrastructure
- Built the idempotency and retry layer processing $400B+ in annual transaction volume.
- Co-designed the routing engine that intelligently directs payments across 30+ acquiring partners.
- Shipped the ledger double-entry migration with zero downtime and zero reconciliation errors.
- Mentored six engineers through promotion; three became tech leads on adjacent teams.
03
Software Engineer
2012 — 2016
Palantir Technologies · Forward Deployed
- Deployed data integration pipelines for three Fortune 100 clients across finance and aerospace.
- Built a query optimizer extension adopted across the Foundry product for complex joins.