Robert Mai

I’m a Software Architect with more than 10 years designing and deploying distributed systems for high-traffic gaming platforms. My focus is always scalability, performance tuning, and developer experience—so teams can ship faster without sacrificing reliability.

I’ve architected microservices and event-driven platforms that support massive concurrency, including a suite that increased request throughput 3x while maintaining 99.95% availability. I’ve scaled Kafka pipelines to process 1.2B events per day, enabling real-time analytics for leaderboards and telemetry.

Across databases and caching, I deliver measurable latency and cost improvements through sharding, read-replicas, partitioning, and careful query optimization. I’ve implemented multi-layer Redis caching to reduce backend read load by 85%, cut median page load time by 40%, and optimized MongoDB storage and indexes to improve retrieval performance.

I also bring operational excellence through automated deployments, observability, and production readiness. Using Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and centralized logging, I’ve reduced release cycles from 3 hours to 15 minutes and cut incident MTTR by 60% while mentoring engineers through API design and internal SDKs.