Career

Experience

2021 — Present

Senior Software Engineer

NovaCloud Inc. · San Francisco, CA

Led the backend team for a cloud billing platform; redesigned the invoice processing pipeline, reducing latency by 65% and operational cost by 30%. Designed event-driven microservices with Go and Kafka, plus end-to-end testing and SLO-driven alerting.

65% lower latency30% cost reduction

2018 — 2021

Software Engineer II

LyraHealth · San Jose, CA

Built and maintained patient-facing APIs in Python/Flask and services on AWS. Improved the database indexing strategy to accelerate queries 4x and reduced daily incidents by 40% through reliability initiatives.

4x faster queries40% fewer incidents

2016 — 2018

Software Engineer (Backend)

BrightRoute Labs · Sacramento, CA

Developed features for a logistics optimization platform, integrated third-party mapping APIs, and implemented Redis caching layers to support peak loads.

Peak-load caching

Education

2012 — 2016

Bachelor of Computer Science

Dalhousie University

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)