About

Senior Software Engineer, currently at Uber. Focused on distributed systems, backend software engineering, Java, and AWS.

Away from the keyboard: photography, bass, and games.

Areas of Expertise

Distributed Systems & Architecture

Designing and operating scalable, fault-tolerant backend systems

Backend & API Platforms

Building reliable services and APIs that are easy to operate and maintain

Cloud Infrastructure

Deep experience with AWS services and cloud-native systems

Developer Experience

Improving tooling, workflows, and the day-to-day of shipping software

Mar 2026 – Present

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2022 – Feb 2026

SDE II

Jan 2025 – Feb 2026

Designed the core architecture of Cluster Insights, a platform that generates health diagnostics, mitigation signals, and operational recommendations for large-scale OpenSearch clusters.
Built distributed insight pipelines that combine telemetry, metadata, and system signals to drive automated remediation.
Led the NotificationService migration from JDK 8 to JDK 21, improving performance and runtime efficiency.

Aug 2022 – Dec 2024

Designed a Risk Prevention evaluation platform for merchant onboarding within Amazon Pay’s ML infrastructure.
Built secure KYC document ingestion and a Domain Validation Service for merchant verification and fraud detection in the US region.
Reduced critical platform load time from ~50s to ~2s, improving operational efficiency and cutting support load.
Enabled recurring payments in the next-generation Amazon Pay architecture.

Contributed to Diya, Amazon’s internal AI assistant serving ~75K daily active users, and to cross-team fraud detection systems.

Apr 2021 – Aug 2022

SDE II

Designed and implemented a multi-tenant billing platform with full data migration and rollback safety.
Built scalable relaying infrastructure that reduced platform costs by 75%.
Cut homepage API latency from ~1s to ~50ms through architecture redesign and database optimization.

Jan 2020 – Apr 2021

SE II

Built payments and invoicing backend services.
Designed an Automated Program Launcher that reduced launch time from 10 days to 2 days.
Built a Form Service that cut creation time from days to hours, with deployment automation that improved release safety.

JavaSpringAWSKinesisGolangKafkaRDSDDBOpenSearchDocker

dloom — Maintainer. Open-source home directory manager — an alternative approach to GNU Stow for managing dotfiles and configurations.

endoflife.date — Contributor. Community-maintained product end-of-life and support timelines for software and devices.