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Backend engineer with 8+ years building APIs, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.

Senior Backend Engineer · Finlay Systems

2023 — now

Payments infrastructure · Go, Postgres, Kafka, AWS

  • Led redesign of the ledger service; cut p99 write latency from 480ms to 90ms.
  • Introduced idempotency-key middleware used by 14 services; retry-related incidents dropped to zero.
  • Own on-call tooling: built runbooks-as-code that halved mean time to resolution.

Backend Engineer · CloudMason

2020 — 2023

Developer platform · Python, Terraform, Kubernetes

  • Built self-service environment provisioning; spin-up time went from 2 days to 15 minutes.
  • Migrated 40+ cron jobs to an event-driven pipeline on SQS with dead-letter handling.

Software Engineer · Brightpath Labs

2017 — 2020

B2B SaaS · Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis

  • Shipped the public REST API v2 with cursor pagination and webhooks.
  • Added caching layer that cut database load 60% during peak traffic.
GoPythonTypeScriptPostgreSQLRedisKafkaAWSTerraformDocker / K8s

B.E. Computer Engineering

2013 — 2017