Profile

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.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer
Lumen Payments — San Francisco, CA
Mar 2021 – Present
  • 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 Engineer
Northwind Analytics — Oakland, CA
Jun 2017 – Mar 2021
  • 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 Engineer
Harbor Labs — San Jose, CA
Jul 2015 – Jun 2017
  • 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%.