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Engineering systems that survive the real world.

I am a backend architect who values systems thinking and learning through failure. My approach is rooted in the belief that resilience is built on the expectation of chaos, not the hope for perfection.

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Principles / How I Work

Dealing with Failure

  • >Post-mortems over blame. Human error is a system design flaw.
  • >Observability over intuition. If it isn't measured, it doesn't exist.
  • >Degrade gracefully. Better to serve cached data than a 500.

System Design

  • >Simplicity is a feature. Complexity is the silent killer.
  • >Stateless where possible. Scale out, not up.
  • >Idempotency is mandatory for distributed systems.

Engineering Values

  • >Documentation as code. If it's stale, it's a bug.
  • >Radical transparency. Share the 'why' behind decisions.
  • >YAGNI (You Ain't Gonna Need It). Don't over-engineer early.

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2020 — PRESENT

Lead Backend Architect @ CloudScale Solutions

REMOTE

Architected and led the migration of a legacy monolithic payment gateway to a highly available microservices ecosystem. Leveraged Go, gRPC, and Kafka to handle 15k+ req/sec with sub-50ms latency.

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2017 — 2020

Senior Software Engineer @ DataVessel

BERLIN, DE

Developed core distributed data processing engine using Rust. Reduced infrastructure costs by 40% through optimized memory management and concurrent stream processing.

RustAWSTerraform
2015 — 2017

Backend Developer @ FintechHub

LONDON, UK

Built real-time transaction monitoring tools. Integrated multiple 3rd party banking APIs and implemented strict event-sourcing patterns.

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