backend software engineer with ~4 years of experience building distributed systems at scale — matching engines, data pipelines, real-time infrastructure, the stuff that quietly makes products work

currently at a large consumer marketplace, previously at a social platform where i owned a lot of the backend matching and recommendation infrastructure

a few things i've shipped that i'm genuinely proud of:

• redesigned a core filtering system to use native indexing instead of runtime scripts → ~35% throughput improvement
• planned and executed a live infrastructure split across two cloud regions under a hard deadline — zero incidents
• shipped a personalization feature end-to-end that meaningfully improved week-one user retention
• identified unnecessary caching in a thumbnail pipeline silently wasting $2k/month in cloud spend

outside of work i do bug bounty hunting and build ai tooling — this is where i write about both

bsc computer science