Senior engineering leader with over 22 years of experience building large-scale, cloud-based platforms and distributed systems.

Currently leads product engineering for a platform processing 50B+ events a year across PostgreSQL, Apache Druid, Kafka and Elasticsearch, serving 300+ enterprise customers with 99.99% uptime. Has managed engineering organizations of 30 to 54 people across backend, data, platform, DevOps and QA. Strong in microservices, database design, query optimization, legacy-to-cloud migrations and AI agent systems. Delivered a 30% latency reduction, 25% higher throughput and 20% lower operating cost, and scaled a consumer platform from 10 to 10,000 TPS.