Founding Engineer at Shade, Inc Feb 2026 -
Present
- Well, I just started so this is TBD but I will be working on networking and storage!
Principal Software Engineer at Persefoni Dec 2021 -
Feb 2026
- Drove the design of a distributed service architecture, partnering with central architecture teams to define resource and failure boundaries, reducing new service creation time from 3 weeks to 2 hours.
- Drove the design and implementation of a centralized authorization service based on the ReBAC (Zanzibar) model, capable of efficiently executing complex authorization queries over large relational datasets.
- Built resource-aware execution models in Go and Kubernetes, enabling high-throughput processing of previously infeasible workloads.
- Implemented a query planner and AST-based SQL generation system for optimized, declarative SQL with join elimination.
I worked at the intersection of distributed systems and performance engineering, focusing on correctness, observability, and resource efficiency. My work emphasized understanding CPU, memory, and I/O behavior, applying low-level optimizations when abstractions become limiting, and designing execution models that scale reliably under real production constraints.
Senior Software Engineer at Maria DB Apr 2021 -
Dec 2021
- Developed and maintained Kubernetes operator for various MariaDB database topologies.
- Refactored a large monolith into multiple libraries, reducing image sizes and reusing common code.
- Initiated efforts for an automatic database upgrade system.
- Added CI and automatic release notes generator for streamlined release procedures.
Backend Engineer at Numerator (formerly InfoScout) Jan 2017 -
Apr 2021
- Implemented a human intelligence task software, processing 1 million tasks daily, replacing mTurk.
- Containerized and migrated ML pipelines to Kubernetes, enabling automatic scaling and reducing complexity.
- Designed an open-source configuration management library in C++ with wrapper libraries for Python and Java, utilized company-wide.
- Runner-up/winner of five consecutive hack-day competitions.
- Won the company value award for clever solutions.
