Backend · Applied ML · Systems
Engineer, builder, and lifelong experimenter.
Most days you'll find me working on something, or unwinding with a game or an anime.
Atlanta, GA · open to work
Product-driven full-stack developer with 4+ years of industry experience specializing in modern web applications, scalable backend architectures, and AI/LLM workflows. I got into software to understand how systems work under pressure — and I've stayed because the problems keep getting harder.
Dependable infrastructure, quantitative systems, and practical ML — built for high-traffic data products, with a user-centric lifecycle and automated testing.
Software Engineer
Engineered an end-to-end quantitative trading pipeline from alpha research to paper & live trading. Built a resilient event-driven pipeline (Kafka) bridging C++ data feeds with Python inference models + Temporal orchestration — sub-millisecond processing, 99.9% message-delivery reliability. Automated AWS infrastructure (Lambda/EventBridge, C++-optimized EC2) and full CI/CD via OpenTofu across GCP/AWS.
Machine Learning Engineer
Built the 0-to-1 architecture of an automated AI compliance system: a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) + ReAct LLM pipeline (LangGraph) processing massive unstructured data — cutting federal compliance check time by 90%. Shipped a React/Next.js frontend with strict code-level guardrails, observability & evals that minimized hallucinations and ensured production-ready responses.
Software Engineer
Architected a highly-available serverless cloud infrastructure on AWS (Amplify, DynamoDB) and designed a data-driven UI incorporating ArcGIS maps and custom layer configs to process spatial sensor data — responsive, performant visualizations that improved analysis efficiency for farmers.
Software Engineer
Shipped full-stack vertical slices coupling React/Angular micro-frontends with scalable Python/Node backends (BFF pattern). Owned high-traffic intent microservices on a Kafka backbone processing millions of B2B signals daily for 35,000+ orgs — reduced backend p99 latency by 15%, raised DAU retention 22%, and drove Playwright/Selenium E2E automation in CI/CD.
Also: Technical Lead (CTO) at TREC LLC / Ezcaza — custom JWT auth scheme and a neural recommender model.
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