Backend engineer with 7 years building data-intensive services in Python and TypeScript. Led a 4-engineer platform team; cut warehouse costs 38% and shipped a streaming pipeline handling 2.1B events/day.
- Designed and shipped a Kafka→ClickHouse streaming pipeline processing 2.1B events/day with p99 ingest latency under 900ms
- Cut Snowflake warehouse spend 38% ($214k/yr) by re-clustering hot tables and moving 60% of workloads to dbt incremental models
- Led a 4-engineer team through 3 quarterly roadmaps; introduced RFC review that cut rework 25%
- Owned the ETL layer (Airflow, 400+ DAGs); reduced nightly batch window from 6h to 2.5h
- Migrated 23 services from EC2 to EKS with Terraform; deploy time dropped 70%
- Built the internal feature-flag service (Node.js + Postgres) used by 14 product squads
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate · AWS · 2023
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