Summary

Senior software engineer with 8+ years building reliable, high-scale backend systems and developer platforms. Led teams of 4–6 engineers, shipped services handling 50M+ daily requests, and cut infrastructure cost 35% through systematic performance work.

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Experience

Senior Software EngineerMar 2021 – Present

Lumen Payments · San Francisco, CA

Led migration of the payments ledger from a monolith to 6 Go microservices, cutting p99 latency 42% and enabling 50M+ daily transactions.
Mentored 5 engineers and introduced an RFC process that reduced production incidents 30% year over year.
Designed an idempotency framework adopted org-wide, eliminating duplicate-charge bugs across 12 teams.

Software EngineerJun 2017 – Mar 2021

Northwind Analytics · Oakland, CA

Built a real-time event pipeline (Kafka, Go) processing 2B events/day with 99.99% uptime.
Reduced cloud spend 35% ($1.2M/yr) by rightsizing services and adding autoscaling.
Shipped the company's first public REST + GraphQL API, onboarding 400+ integration partners.

Junior Software EngineerJul 2015 – Jun 2017

Harbor Labs · San Jose, CA

Developed internal tooling in Python/Django that cut deployment time from 2 hours to 8 minutes.
Wrote the test harness that lifted backend coverage from 41% to 87%.

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Skills

Languages Go, Python, TypeScript, SQL, Java

Frameworks gRPC, Django, React, Node.js

Infrastructure Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis

Practices Distributed systems, CI/CD, observability, system design

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Education

University of California, Berkeley — B.S. Computer Science, 2015

Regents' Scholar · ACM Programming Team · AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (2022)