Laurence Oh

I’m a backend engineer and technical lead with 13+ years building distributed systems across fintech, payments, trading, game servers, blockchain infrastructure, and real-time sports data pipelines. I’m comfortable owning architecture decisions end-to-end—from schema design to production observability—with a practical bias toward operational clarity and maintainability.

Most recently, I worked directly with the CTO to plan, architect, and evolve technical strategy and stack, while leading a backend team of 4–5 engineers in a flat, autonomous structure. I designed and operated payment gateway architecture for real-money transaction flows, built and maintained an observability stack using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Tempo, and partnered on AWS ECS containerized deployments with production runbook culture. Earlier, I grew from intern to technical lead over 11 years by building business platforms and standing up backend systems for arbitrage trading, real-time sports data pipelines, and blockchain/NFT platforms—plus modernized legacy payment gateway components under tight deadlines.