Things I've shipped recently
Relay
A lightweight distributed task queue written in Rust,
with exactly-once delivery semantics and automatic
partition rebalancing. Handles 50k+ jobs per second in
production.
Rust
Tokio
Redis
Protocol Buffers
Observo
Internal observability platform that unified logs,
metrics, and traces across 80+ microservices. Cut
median incident response time from 34 minutes to 8
minutes.
Go
ClickHouse
Grafana Tempo
OpenTelemetry
SchemaSync
CI-native database migration tool for microservices that validates backward compatibility and runs zero-downtime
deploys. Adopted by 12 teams in 3 months.
Rust
PostgreSQL
GitHub Actions
Docker
Where I've worked
Senior Software Engineer — Rainier Payments · Seattle, WA
Sep 2021 – Present
Lead platform team building the core payments ledger and reconciliation pipeline processing $2B+ annually.
Designed an internal control plane that reduced service provisioning time from 3 days to 15 minutes.
Mentored four engineers to senior level; established team-wide SRE rotation and incident review process.
Software Engineer — Cascade Finance · San Francisco, CA
Jun 2019 – Aug 2021
Built event-sourced transaction pipeline handling 400k events/day with Kafka and Kafka Streams.
Shipped a real-time fraud-detection engine that reduced chargeback rate by 22% in the first quarter.
Led migration from EC2 to Kubernetes, cutting infrastructure spend by 35%.
Software Engineer — Microsoft · Redmond, WA
Aug 2017 – May 2019
Developed control-plane APIs for Azure virtual network gateway, serving 100k+ enterprise customers.
Reduced deployment failure rate by 60% through canary analysis and automated rollback tooling.
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