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Profile

Backend engineer with 8 years building high-throughput payments infrastructure. I ship boring, well-tested systems — most recently a ledger service that has processed $2.1B with zero reconciliation incidents.

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Experience

Senior Backend Engineer2021 — Present
Ridgeline Pay · Remote
  • Rebuilt the settlement engine in Go; p99 latency dropped from 900ms to 60ms at 3x volume.
  • Designed an idempotent ledger service handling $2.1B/yr with zero reconciliation incidents.
  • Mentored 4 engineers through senior promotion; wrote the team's incident-review playbook.
Backend Engineer2018 — 2021
Hoverboard Labs · San Francisco, CA
  • Migrated a monolith to 11 services on Kubernetes; deploy frequency went from weekly to 40/day.
  • Built the rate-limiting layer that stopped a 2019 credential-stuffing attack cold.
Software Engineer2016 — 2018
Instride · San Francisco, CA
  • Owned the notifications pipeline (Kafka + Postgres) serving 6M daily events.
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Open Source

ledger-go — reconciliation library, 900+ GitHub stars, used at 3 fintechs.
kcat-lite — zero-dep Kafka CLI, adopted internally at 2 former employers.