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I build the systems nobody notices, because they never break.

Senior Backend Engineer

Nine years building backend systems for products that can't afford downtime — payments, healthcare data, and one very stressful ticketing platform. I'd rather ship something boring and correct than something clever and fragile.

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Go +PostgreSQL +Kafka +Kubernetes +Terraform +gRPC +Go +PostgreSQL +Kafka +Kubernetes +Terraform +gRPC +

01 / Selected systems

Projects that reveal how I think.

Each project starts with a problem, not a framework choice. Open any card for the reasoning behind it.

Shipped

Ledgerline

Event-sourced payments ledger handling 4M+ transactions/day with zero reconciliation drift.

  • Go
  • Kafka
  • Payments
Shipped

Queue-depth autoscaler

Custom Kubernetes autoscaler driven by queue depth instead of CPU, cutting p99 latency by 60%.

  • Kubernetes
  • Kafka
  • Reliability
Shipped

Schema migration toolkit

Internal tool for zero-downtime Postgres migrations across 40+ services.

  • PostgreSQL
  • Tooling
Building

gRPC service mesh rollout

Migrating internal REST services to gRPC behind a shared mesh, in progress.

  • gRPC
  • In progress

02 / Experience

Senior Backend Engineer

Vantablock Security

2021–present

Backend Engineer

Ferrylane (acquired)

2018–2021

Software Engineer

Northline Media

2016–2018