monthly transactions on a financial platform
About
Backend, platform, and product thinking in the same room
I build backend services, data-intensive products, and platform layers that make complex workflows feel clear, fast, and dependable.
Role focus
- Senior Software Engineer
- Senior Backend Engineer
- Data Platform Engineer
- Product Engineer
- Payments Platform Engineer
- Platform Engineer
Current focus
- Backend product engineering with strong data and reliability foundations
- Evidence-backed AI features where source fidelity and product UX both matter
- Payments observability and reconciliation-aware system design
- Public-data and hobby products that turn noisy topics into clear software
Selected signals
Relevant labels and scope
reduction in manual reporting effort
faster deployment loops and data throughput gains
reconciliation accuracy on automated workflows
Strengths
What teams usually pull me into
Backend Systems and APIs
- APIs
- Service design
- Domain modeling
- System design
Data Platforms and Pipelines
- ETL
- Streaming
- Data modeling
- Observability
Payments and Reliability
- Partner APIs
- Reconciliation
- Reliability
- Event timelines
Product Engineering
- User flows
- Tradeoffs
- Cross-functional delivery
- Product sense
AI-Assisted Product Workflows
- LLMs
- RAG
- Source grounding
- Content systems
Career path
Experience across merchant trust, payments, and financial systems
Sr. Software Engineer
Google (Merchant Product - Trust & Safety, via TelusAI)
- Backend systems
- Trust & Safety
- Airflow
- Python
- Analytics
- Platform
Sr. Software Engineer
BlackRock, Inc. (Post Trade & Accounting)
- Snowflake
- Kafka
- Reconciliation
- Cloud migration
- Backend platforms
Software Engineer
BlackRock, Inc. (Fund Accounting)
- SQL
- Data marts
- Performance
- Financial systems
- Java
Skills
Languages
- Python
- SQL
- Java
- R
Data & Platform
- Airflow
- Kafka
- Snowflake
- Spark
- BigQuery
- Postgres
- MySQL
Cloud & Infra
- GCP
- AWS
- Azure
- Docker
- CI/CD
Applied Work
- Trust & Safety
- Fraud workflows
- Payments systems
- Data modeling
- ETL
- Monitoring
Education
University of Washington, Michael G. Foster School of Business
Master of Science in Information Systems (Data Science concentration)
Jun 2022 - Jun 2023Manipal Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science
Aug 2013 - Aug 2017Credentials
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
- Certified Scrum Product Owner
- AI for Product Management
- LangChain LLM