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Case studies from production.

Real systems I designed, built, and shipped — with the problems, the decisions, and the trade-offs. No fluff, no logo walls.

Bolt
Jan 2023 — Nov 2024

Scaling the Bolt+ Campaigns Platform

Led end-to-end architecture and scaling of Bolt+ campaign infra — drove 15% user-base growth and 5% food-delivery revenue lift across 200M+ MAU.

+15%
user-base growth (Bolt+)
+5%
food-delivery revenue lift
35%
latency reduction
10K
peak RPS handled
TypeScriptNode.jsGoPostgreSQLRedis+2 more
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Delivery Hero
Aug 2021 — Dec 2022

Inventory Management with a State Machine

Modelled warehouse stock movement as a finite state machine — safer transitions, zero ghost-stock bugs.

5+
vendor adapters shipped
0
ghost-stock bugs post-launch
4
engineers led
PythonPostgreSQLGoKafkaGCP+2 more
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HERE Technologies
Mar 2020 — Jul 2021

Real-time Routing & Isoline Service

Performance tuning and RPA test automation for HERE's routing APIs.

High
availability SLOs met
RPA
test suites automated
Node.jsPythonRustC++DynamoDB+3 more
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JetSynthesys · GREE
Sep 2016 — Jul 2018

Knights & Dragons — Fantasy RPG Backend

Real-time multiplayer, matchmaking, leaderboards, chat — core backend for a title generating $1.6M+ revenue.

$1.6M+
revenue supported (KND)
4
engineers led
Global
live ops
Node.jsPythonPostgreSQLPHPMySQL+1 more
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Messier.art
2021 — 2022

Messier.art — NFT Marketplace on Terra

Full-stack NFT marketplace with Rust/CosmWasm smart contracts. Led technical architecture end-to-end as CTO.

CTO
technical leadership
E2E
on-chain + off-chain
$MSR
token + DAO
ReactNode.jsRustCosmWasmTerra+1 more
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Tata Consultancy Services
Sep 2012 — Jul 2016

Network Automation for Telefonica & GE

20+ Six Sigma process improvements; $100K in annual operational savings.

$100K
annual ops savings
20+
Six Sigma improvements
PHPPythonMySQLJavaScriptAWS
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