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Real-time collaborative sync engine. Operational transforms over a custom CRDT log, replicated across three regions. Shipped without a single customer-facing degradation in 8 months.
GoCRDTPostgresKafka
Career
Experience
Staff Engineer · Linear
2024 — PresentRemote
- Owner of the sync engine — real-time CRDT-backed pipeline shipping ~6B ops/day.
- Brought write-amplification down 41% by collapsing redundant Postgres write paths into a single transactional log.
- Tech lead for the cross-region replication project (no customer-facing downtime over a 6-month rollout).
Senior Software Engineer · Stripe
2020 — 2024San Francisco · Remote
- Owned the payment-routing decision engine for international cards (~$340B GMV).
- Designed and shipped the per-account ratelimit primitive used across 200+ internal services.
- Mentored 5 engineers from L2 to L4. Two are now staff.
Software Engineer · Cloudflare
2017 — 2020London
- Edge data plane for Workers KV — latency profiling, regional cache strategy, request routing.
Selected work
Projects
stripe-edge
Latency-sensitive payment routing for international cards. Sub-50ms p99 at $340B GMV with multi-region failover.
GogRPCRoutingPostgres
fastlane.io
Open-source ratelimit library: token-bucket, leaky-bucket, sliding-window. Production-tested at Stripe and now used by ~120 OSS projects.
GoRustOSS
Toolbox
Skills
Languages
GoRustPythonTypeScriptSQL
Infrastructure
PostgresKafkaRedisgRPCAWSKubernetes
Domain
Distributed systemsCRDTsObservabilityCapacity planning
Background
Education
- 2013 — 2017
University College London
BSc, Computer Science
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Open to senior / staff IC roles at infrastructure-heavy teams. Not currently considering management tracks.