Senior software engineer with 8 years of experience designing and scaling backend systems. Currently own the architecture for a distributed payments platform processing $2B+ annually. Focused on making systems — and the teams that build them — faster.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer · Solstice Cloud
Sep 2021 — PresentAustin, TX
- Own the architecture for a distributed payments platform processing $2B+ in annual transaction volume
- Led migration from a monolith to 12 microservices, cutting deployment time from 45 minutes to 4
- Designed the on-call runbook and incident review process, reducing mean time to resolution by 60%
- Mentor 4 engineers; 3 have been promoted within the last 18 months
- Drove adoption of a company-wide RFC process for cross-team technical decisions
Software Engineer · Meridian Apps
Jul 2018 — Aug 2021Austin, TX
- Built the core scheduling engine used by 500K+ monthly active users
- Reduced infrastructure costs by 22% by rearchitecting batch jobs to run on spot instances
- Served as tech lead for a 5-person team during a 6-month platform migration
Software Engineer I · Tandem Digital
Aug 2016 — Jun 2018Austin, TX
- Built internal tooling that cut manual QA time by 15 hours per release cycle