Backend engineer working on the unglamorous parts of large systems: queues, retries, idempotency, the things that have to keep working when nothing else does. Currently at Northfield.
Experience
Staff Software Engineer @ Northfield
2022 → Present
Remote
- Tech lead for the ledger team — owns the accounting graph that backs every Northfield transaction.
- Led the move from Postgres advisory locks to a queue-based settlement pipeline; cut p99 latency on closing entries by 80%.
- Wrote and maintain the internal idempotency framework now used by ~40 services.
Senior Software Engineer @ Cloudvane
2018 → 2022
San Francisco, CA
- Worked on the payments orchestration platform — the layer that routes a charge through the right rails.
- Designed and shipped the retry-after-failure framework, generalized across 12 payment methods.
Software Engineer @ Trailhead Metrics
2015 → 2018
New York, NY
- Metrics pipeline. Wrote the dispatcher rewrite that doubled ingestion throughput per node.
Projects
lockless-rs
A small Rust crate for lock-free counters tuned for high-write metrics workloads.
Pgmate
Open-source migrations tool for Postgres-only shops. Timeline-style UI, no destructive ops by default.
Idempotency, plainly
Long-form essay on what idempotency keys actually buy you and where teams go wrong with them.
Skills
GoRustPythonPostgreSQLKafkagRPCKubernetesTerraformDistributed systemsObservability
Education
Universidad Politécnica del Norte
2011 → 2015
BSc, Computer Science