Backend & distributed-systems engineer who likes making complex systems simple — and explaining them clearly along the way.
- 🛠️ 4+ years building scalable backend services and APIs in fintech at Wells Fargo and Vanguard
- ⚙️ Java · Python · TypeScript · Spring Boot · microservices · REST · AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, SQS)
- 🤖 Into AI-assisted development and developer tooling / developer experience
- 🧑🏫 Former algorithms mentor — I enjoy turning "how does this work?" into something the next developer can use
- 📍 New York City
- 🎓 B.S. Computer Science, UC Santa Cruz · AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Languages: Java, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, C Backend: Spring Boot, REST APIs, Microservices, Distributed Systems Cloud & Infra: AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, CloudFormation), CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code Frontend: React, Angular Data/ML (early): Python, Pandas, Keras
- Going deeper on developer tools and developer relations
- Building small projects to understand things — then writing up what I learned
- Happy to talk backend design, APIs, or AWS
