I'm a backend engineer with 8 years of experience building distributed systems, high-throughput APIs, and real-time data pipelines. I've worked on things serving millions of users, the kind of systems where the interesting problems live in the gaps between services.
What I enjoy most is the design phase, before any code is written. Mapping constraints, picking the right tradeoffs, building something that holds up under pressure and is still readable six months later.
I co-founded buidly, where we build backend infrastructure for companies that need things done right. When I'm not in the codebase, I'm usually judging or mentoring at hackathons.