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Senior Backend Engineer

Latch

Jan 2024 - Present (2 years)

Designed and implemented scalable analytics microservices and event-driven ingestion pipelines processing 10M+ events/day, improved BigQuery query performance by 45%, and doubled release velocity via CI/CD and canary deployments.

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Software Engineer

Mediavine

Jan 2020 - Dec 2023 (3 years 11 months)

Built and scaled ad-tech data pipelines with Airflow and BigQuery, implemented event streaming with Kafka/Debezium into BigQuery/Snowflake, and reduced MTTR by 60% through observability and tracing improvements.

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Full Stack Developer

AWS

Jun 2015 - Dec 2019 (4 years 6 months)

Engineered highly available services and ETL workflows on AWS (EC2, ECS, EKS, Kinesis) for B2B SaaS, implemented IaC with CloudFormation and Terraform, and improved distributed systems reliability and security.

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University of Waterloo

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science

2010 - 2015

Completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with coursework and projects focused on software engineering, systems, and data processing.

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