Staff Backend & Platform Engineer
Staff Software Engineer & Cloud Architect
I help CTOs and engineering teams diagnose and redesign critical APIs, data pipelines, and cloud platforms: the systems that get slow, fragile, or risky to change as they grow. Mostly Go, Python and TypeScript/Node.js on Kubernetes, with recent work in healthcare and biotech.
- Make slow paths fast
- Untangle fragile data flows
- Make changes safe to ship
- Cut platform drag
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Selected systems impact
~70% faster end to end
Re-architected a biotech platform's core data path
Redesigned ingestion and retrieval across the platform's core data pipeline, cutting end-to-end processing time by roughly 70%.
Billions of production events
Defined the primitives and contracts behind an integrations platform
Designed the shared stream, queue, and workflow primitives, plus the source and target contract conventions, underpinning a platform handling billions of production events.
Cross-service platform conventions
Established service boundaries across a multi-service Python platform
Defined service ownership and API contract conventions across backend APIs, ETL and ML pipelines, monitoring, and CLI surfaces, reducing integration friction and making cross-team changes safer to coordinate.
Beyond previous load ceilings
Led a backend beyond its previous architectural ceiling
Architected the migration from a monolithic Elixir backend to service-oriented components and replaced a synchronous request path with distributed processing, allowing the platform to move beyond its previous load ceilings.
What I work on
Backend & APIs
Service boundaries, API contracts, service ownership
Go, Python, TypeScript/Node.js, FastAPI
Distributed & event-driven
Stream, queue and workflow primitives; ingestion and ETL paths
Kafka, Redis, event-driven architecture
Data & performance
Data modelling, query performance, caching strategy
PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
Cloud & platform
Cloud-native architecture, deployment, infrastructure as code
Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Docker, Terraform
Reliability & operations
Observability, incident readiness, production hardening, CI/CD
Monitoring, tracing, rollout strategy
Security & correctness
Access control, tenant isolation, auditability and data provenance
Compliance-aware architecture
Where to go next
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