8+ years building cloud-native systems, from early-stage AI startups to platforms serving 40M+ users. I own delivery end to end: code, pipelines, and infrastructure.
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I write the code, build the pipelines, and run the infrastructure, without handing off to a separate ops team. My background spans modernizing legacy Golang, PHP, Python, and Node.js monoliths into containerized microservices on Kubernetes and AWS ECS, always keeping production stable through the transition. Beyond the day job, I've been the founding engineer on a funded AI startup, taking a privacy-first RAG platform from zero to funded in 45 days.
Backend APIs and automation workflows for a platform projected to exceed $2B annually. Migrated a monolithic Golang application to microservices on Kubernetes, and designed event-driven Kafka workflows to decouple high-throughput services.
Architected and deployed the full platform from scratch in 45 days: backend services, RAG pipeline, cloud infrastructure, and observability. Deployed inference using Confidential Containers (CoCo) on Kubernetes so customer data never left their environment. Helped the founders close a $100K seed round within 45 days of starting the build.
Backend and React.js frontend work serving 40M+ students across 14,000+ school districts at roughly 100K requests/minute. Shipped a real-time translation service recognized at AWS re:Invent 2023, rebuilt document processing from 15s to under 1s, and integrated an OpenAI-powered chatbot for career guidance.
Brightline (intercity railroad platform): Golang REST APIs for real-time train status at 30K+ requests/minute, webhooks ingesting live tracking data, containerized CI/CD on AWS ECS.
OTTPlay (OTT recommendation platform): Node.js/Express APIs serving 7M+ users across 60+ providers, custom crawlers normalizing 65K+ content assets, Elasticsearch and MongoDB for search.
Node.js backend processing real-time biometric data over TCP for 24/7 health monitoring with SOS alerting. Built a React.js admin portal and a Python (Pyramid) location-based social event platform with Firebase and Twilio integrations.