Senior Backend Engineer & DevOps Architect — 10+ years designing distributed systems, microservices, and cloud infrastructure that scales to millions of users with zero-downtime deployments.
I'm a backend engineer turned DevOps architect with a passion for infrastructure as code, observability, and building resilient systems at scale. I've led platform teams at high-growth startups and Fortune 500 companies alike.
My approach is automation-first — if I do something twice, I script it. I believe in GitOps workflows, immutable infrastructure, and blameless postmortems. I treat reliability as a feature, not an afterthought.
When I'm not engineering, I contribute to open-source Kubernetes tooling and mentor junior engineers in distributed systems design.
Redesigned a monolithic payment processing system into 14 autonomous microservices. Introduced event sourcing with Kafka, idempotent retry logic, and multi-region active-active PostgreSQL replication. Achieved full PCI-DSS compliance in 6 months.
Built a self-service internal developer platform enabling 80+ engineers to deploy to production multiple times per day. Implemented progressive delivery with canary releases, automated rollback on SLO breach, and full audit trail via GitOps.
Architected a streaming data platform ingesting 2M events/sec from 50+ sources. Built custom Flink jobs for real-time enrichment, anomaly detection, and GDPR deletion pipelines. Reduced data latency from 15 minutes to under 3 seconds.
Open-source Kubernetes operator that analyzes historical pod CPU/memory metrics to generate VPA and HPA recommendations. Used by 300+ organizations. 3,800+ GitHub stars, 120+ contributors.
I'm open to senior backend, platform engineering, and DevOps architecture roles — full-time, contract, or consulting. If you're building something ambitious at scale, I'd love to hear about it. Response time: < 24 hours.