software engineer / backend + distributed systems
Product-focused backend engineer with 13+ years of experience designing, shipping, and operating production software systems.
I build the backend systems that make products work: real-time collaboration, full-text search, and the coordination layers that users might not see but always feel.
Selected work
Designed, built, and shipped distributed backend for concurrent document editing, including custom RPC over TCP, Redis backplane coordination, ECS-hosted container orchestration, and zero-downtime maintenance workflows.
Sole technical owner of full-text search system spanning legacy and greenfield products: OpenSearch data model, SQS-backed ingestion at roughly 80K documents per hour, access control architecture, query API, and TypeScript search UI.
Designed, built, and shipped the initial Model Context Protocol server for Axure Cloud, with the core work centered on data modeling, scoping, and shaping high-salience context so LLM integrations stay useful instead of noisy.