PROFILE

Staff Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building scalable web applications and leading high-performing engineering teams. Currently Head of Platform at Dare Global overseeing backend infrastructure and distributed systems, having transitioned from leading the Web team. Proven track record of delivering complex full-stack solutions at scale, including a high-throughput distributed system for exchange message processing and trade execution generating $100k per day. Expert in modern web technologies, backend systems (Go, Python, Kubernetes), and distributed architecture with demonstrated success in technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and driving cross-functional collaboration to achieve measurable business impact.

CORE SKILLS

Backend & Distributed Systems: Go, Python (fastAPI, Django), C#, ASP.NET, microservices, REST APIs, GraphQL, message queuing (NATS), event-driven architecture

Frontend & Web: React, TypeScript, Next.js, Remix, performance optimization, accessibility standards

Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, ECS, Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, monitoring (New Relic, KEDA auto-scaling)

Engineering Leadership: People management, technical mentoring, team scaling, engineering standards, RFC frameworks, cross-functional collaboration

Product & Delivery: End-to-end product development, data-driven decision making, stakeholder management, agile processes, user engagement optimization

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

Built $100K+/Day Trading Platform: Architected foundational programmatic trading system (C# ASP.NET/React) generating $100k+ daily revenue, now serving as the core framework for algorithmic trading strategies and enabling multiple teams to rapidly deploy trading logic
Led Critical Infrastructure Migration: Led company-wide migration of core trading monolith from Elastic Container Service (ECS) to Kubernetes, coordinating across all business units while achieving notable p95 latency improvements through architectural redesign
Accelerated Service Delivery: Cut new service setup from days to minutes with a production-ready Go/Kubernetes template, integrating local debugging and workflows that became the standard across all backend teams.
Scaled Team Performance: Boosted delivery speed and decision clarity across multiple organisations by mentoring engineers from junior to senior levels and rolling out RFC frameworks and engineering standards adopted company-wide.
Delivered Major Product Engagement GainsL Delivered measurable user engagement improvements as Tech Lead of the Twitter Search Web Team, including 9% increase in Twitter follows through data-driven UX analysis and 4% increase in video viewing for 120 million users through enhanced playback features

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

Dare Global (July 2023 - Present)

Head of Core Platform | Dec 2024 - Present

Strategic Infrastructure Modernization: Identified critical technical debt in legacy ECS infrastructure that limited scalability and security, then led company-wide Kubernetes migration with WSGI/ASGI architecture redesign. Implemented New Relic monitoring and custom dashboards to track progress, achieving notable p95 latency improvements by isolating trading writes and directly improving trade execution performance
Trading Infrastructure Modernization: Architected queue-based distributed system for FIX protocol feedhandlers connecting to exchanges, replacing direct processing with resilient DB-first approach for improved transaction reliability and recovery capabilities