Software Engineer

• Aug 2021 - Present

Making every product and service climate positive by default Making every product and service climate positive by default

Backend Engineer (Current Team Lead)

• Feb 2019 - Aug 2021

Member of the backend team responsible for the development of the core product. Focus on maintaining and developing new features to power an event-driven platform that operates in several countries around the globe: USA, India, Kenya, Ethiopia among others. Platform consists of a front-end for power users, internal and public facing APIs and the backend engine. Performed work on all components including DevOps and SysAdmin tasks when necessary. Main technologies used include: Scala, Ruby, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Salt. As a Team Lead, increased focus on product development and vision, recruitment, team mentoring and cross team collaboration. Main responsible for incident responses requiring technical capabilities. Show less

Software Engineer

• Oct 2014 - Feb 2017

Main responsibilities were to maintain, improve and extend the Backend of a peer to peer betting exchange handling several thousand concurrent Websocket connections and requests per second. Resilience, throughput and sub millisecond latency were main focuses, which resulted in a major refactor towards a no single point of failure architecture. Frontend, DevOps and SysAdmin tasks executed when necessary. Worked on a small sized team, which over time developed into a multi-team flat hierarchy. Highly invested in company culture through recruitment, team building activities and assuming responsibility for the study and rework of several company-wide policies and guidelines. Main technologies used include Erlang, Python, Kafka, React, PostgreSQL. Show less

Member

• Sep 2013 - Sep 2014

Volunteer

• Apr 2013 - Apr 2013