Experience

Architecting zero-to-one scalable core infrastructure for the next generation of digital solutions. Defining technical vision, steering product execution, and embedding a high-velocity engineering culture built on distributed systems expertise.

Spearheading the engineering of mission-critical fintech payment infrastructure. Orchestrating core transactional systems tailored for extreme high-throughput, low-latency financial reliability at massive global scale.

Foundational SDE for the IAM Control Plane Platform. Bootstrapped and scaled the engineering unit to 10+ members while architecting the overarching transition of massive IAM legacy components into agile microservices.

• Developed Proxy-Router — the starting point of migrating IAM Control Plane into microservices architecture
• First IAM service to reach 100% automation from build to deployment across 30+ regions
• Custom thread pooling solution for I/O-heavy proxy workloads with P99 latency < 3ms
• Planned and executed performance testing on parallel infrastructure using identical IaC code
• Implemented fail-to-disk IP-based throttling preserving state during third-party downtime
• Percentage-based traffic cut-over with automatic rollback on fault metrics
• Led release of new IAM services behind the Proxy, from penetration testing to operational readiness
• Security certifier for IAM Control Plane services

Engineered and deployed an end-to-end e-learning management platform. Architected the entire lifecycle—from isolated React interactive systems to fully automated AWS Terraform infrastructure deployments.

• Built all IGCSE question types in React: fill-in, MCQ, listening, speaking
• Auto-corrected exams with teacher override for speaking questions
• Teacher portal for question management, exam scheduling, and student administration
• Blue/Green deployment using Terraform + Ansible + Packer. AWS Lambdas, S3, CloudFront

Drove hyperscale engineering growth, fracturing a 6-year monolithic roadmap to deliver 7 distinct NLP SaaS products in under twelve months. Transitioned into the CTO role, spearheading deep technical synchronization across Data Science and functional Clojure teams.

• Designed and implemented 3 new NLP products: job posting editor, email parser, voice-to-text categorizer
• Full migration of jinja2 templates into React SPAs
• Audio-to-text tool using Clojure async channels for parallel audio chunk processing
• Main maintainer for Datomic temporal database; migrated Datoms & Cassandra entries to JSON
• TestDrivenDevelopment achieving ~95% backend test coverage
• Rich-text editor with real-time AI-powered word suggestions and complex sentence removal

Backend engineer focusing on Neo4j graph database optimization and GraphQL API development.

• Main maintainer for Neo4j database — new queries and optimizations
• Synchronized PostgreSQL with Neo4j for tables requiring strong consistency
• GraphQL implementation for new functionalities and React consumers
• Built geometry and location algorithms module used across multiple clients

Built QA software for BMW Leipzig factory combining robot control interfaces with computer vision for carbon fiber defect detection.

• KUKA Robot IIWA R800 control interface in C# with OO design
• Image processing in MATLAB for carbon fiber defect detection from live camera feeds
• QA software for BMW Leipzig factory integrating both solutions