pleo

senior software engineer - technical lead

may 2025 – present


senior software engineer

february 2024 – april 2025 (1 year 10 months)

i helped maintain and improve the core entity that much of our platform is built on, focusing on database modeling and query optimization to support growth and efficiency. my work enabled the platform to scale 3× while keeping rds costs under control. i also co-led the kafka standards workgroup, where we defined a unified approach for asynchronous data models with support for avro and debezium outbox.


software engineer

february 2022 – january 2024 (2 years 1 month)

i spent most of my time migrating existing functionality from a monolithic typescript and express service to a microservices architecture in kotlin with a stack of dropwizard, exposed, posgresql, kafka, sqs and more. in this time i learned a lot about domain driven design, distributed systems and observability

targit

software engineer - cloud

march 2021 – january 2022 (1 year)

i played a key role in migrating our legacy platform to the cloud. i designed and implemented solutions to transition on-premises services to a kubernetes cluster in docker, using helm charts. additionally, i was responsible for configuring logging, tracing, and metrics using technologies such as prometheus, elasticsearch, grafana, and jaeger. i implemented traefik for simplicity in service routing. i also established multiple ci/cd processes and pipelines within azure devops.


software engineer – core

april 2019 – march 2021 (2 years)

during this time i modernized our data visualization capabilities by transitioning away from visifire charts and replacing them with a fully-integrated web-based solution. i was responsible for implementing highcharts, the crosstab, and other interactive frontend modules to improve the user experience. additionally, i took on the task of migrating from a homebrewed solution to react while refreshing the frontend design of the web version of the platform, to improve its maintainability, aesthetic appeal, and usability.


junior software engineer

june 2015 – march 2019 (3 years 10 months)