Experience

Building the next generation of technology solutions. Applying a decade of engineering experience across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and product development to create impactful technology.

Staff engineer building fintech payment infrastructure at scale. Working on core payment orchestration systems handling high-throughput transaction processing.

First team member of the IAM Control Plane Platform team. Onboarded and scaled the team to 10 members, leading the re-architecture of IAM's control plane organization.

• 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

Designed and built a full-stack e-learning platform for IGCSE English exam preparation. Single-handedly handled everything from design to deployment with full infrastructure automation.

• 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

Helped 100Worte scale from 1 product in 6 years of development into 7 different products in a single year. Held the CTO position for ~6 months, leading both data scientists and software engineers.

• 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