// Available for Contracts

Staff-level engineering,
without the overhead.

I build and scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and fintech-grade backends. 9+ years of precision at the intersection of reliability, performance, and architectural clarity.

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9+
Years experience
95M
Users served
99.999%
Uptime delivered
1
US Patent held
Services
// 01

Cloud Architecture & Migration

End-to-end cloud migrations and re-architecture. Proven on GCP→AWS migrations involving databases, queues, lambdas, and IoT infrastructure — delivered solo in 8 months.

// 02

Distributed Systems Design

High-availability backend systems. Specialized in gRPC services, microservice extraction from monoliths, and active-active multi-region architectures.

// 03

Platform Engineering & DevOps

Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and Terraform. EC2 to EKS migrations, container orchestration standardization, and Elasticsearch/Kibana observability pipelines.

// 04

AI-Native Development

Agentic workflow design using Claude Code and LLM tooling. Proven to compress delivery timelines and reduce operational overhead by 70–90%.

Experience
Life360
Sept 2021 – Present
Senior Software Engineer II
  • Solo-led full GCP→AWS cloud migration in 8 months across 3 core services, databases, queues, lambdas, and IoT infrastructure
  • Built highly available gRPC metadata service: 99.999% uptime, sub-15ms latency, serving 95M users on iOS and Android
  • Led monolith decomposition extracting 3 microservices, reducing operational overhead 70–90%
  • Pioneered AI-native development with Claude Code and agentic workflows across the engineering team
  • Migrated 10+ service deployments from EC2 to EKS
Capital One
Apr 2020 – Sept 2021
Senior Software Engineer
  • Co-invented US Patent #11,368,515 — distributed caching system eliminating race conditions in active-active AWS deployments
  • Built the Rate Change Governor, a zero-error financial hardship platform for APR reduction during COVID-19
  • Designed active-active multi-region AWS architecture guaranteeing exactly-once file processing
Showpad
Jul 2019 – Apr 2020
Full Stack Engineer
  • Engineered complex drag-and-drop course builder in Angular with zero-lag advanced state management
  • Led full product UI redesign while contributing Scala backend pagination and filtering
  • Mentored 3 engineers in Angular and frontend state management
RoomIt by CWT
Jan 2017 – Jul 2019
Software Engineer
  • Grew from Junior to Staff Engineer, owning a Node.js config service on AWS Elasticache and internal analytics platform
  • Built observability infrastructure via Elasticsearch, Kibana, and New Relic across Kubernetes clusters
  • Acted as Tech Liaison enforcing code standards for third-party vendor integrations
Skills
// Languages
JavaNode.jsTypeScriptScalaGoAngular
// Cloud & Infra
AWSECSEKSLambdaAuroraSQS/SNSGCP
// Databases
PostgreSQLDynamoDBMongoDBRedisElasticsearch
// Containers & Orchestration
KubernetesDockerHelmTerraform
// Protocols
gRPCREST
// AI Tooling
Claude CodeAgentic workflowsLLM-assisted dev
Patent
U.S. Patent #11,368,515 · June 2022
Preventing Duplicative File Processing
A distributed caching system that eliminates race conditions across multi-region active-active AWS architectures, guaranteeing exactly-once file processing.
Co-Inventor

Let's build something reliable.

Available for staff-level contract engagements in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and backend architecture. Based in Chicago, open to remote.

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