2025 — PRESENT
NowQ20 Engineering
Co-founder
Designing real-time operating infrastructure for autonomous swarm systems - FPGA, embedded Linux, computer vision.
Career Timeline
A decade of backend, platform, and distributed-systems work — from messaging infrastructure at scale to crypto rails, decentralized compute, and autonomous systems.
2025 — PRESENT
NowCo-founder
Designing real-time operating infrastructure for autonomous swarm systems - FPGA, embedded Linux, computer vision.
NOV 2025 — PRESENT
NowSenior Software Engineer
Contributing to core software powering on-demand digital manufacturing delivery.
Developing logistics and pricing workflows for factory shipping across ocean freight, road transport, and partner integrations while helping migrate legacy workflows into modern Protolabs Network services.
MAY 2025 - MARCH 2026
Lead Software Engineer
Increased transaction volume by 120% and reduced latency by 60% through targeted performance engineering.
Leading a six-engineer team on Exposure Layer and SMSC services that process billions of annual transactions across SMS, WhatsApp, voice, and other omnichannel routes.
MAR 2024 — MAY 2025
Senior Software Engineer
Improved compute distribution by 40% with robust decentralized task scheduling.
Engineered cross-platform decentralized compute and storage clients, extending IPFS with custom DHT logic and implementing decentralized scheduling with dynamic node allocation.
APR 2023 — APR 2024
Backend Lead Engineer
Onboarded major banking and liquidity providers and accelerated time-to-market by six weeks.
Led backend architecture for a financial platform combining crypto rails and OpenBanking payments, including KYC, AML, fraud controls, and 3DS payment flows.
OCT 2021 — MAR 2023
Blockchain Tech Lead
Scaled crypto payment infrastructure to support more than $60M annual GMV.
Owned architecture for NFT checkout, Solana minting, and crypto payment flows, while leading backend and DevOps execution across AWS and Kubernetes.
MAR 2020 — SEP 2021
Senior Software Engineer
Reduced oracle-cluster downtime by 30% through automation and hardened networking.
Built critical AnyHedge services including oracle and hedging logic, and automated oracle-cluster deployments on Kubernetes.
APR 2020 — APR 2021
Senior Software Engineer
Enabled 99.9% uptime for real-time services.
Led backend architecture and DevOps for two SaaS products, implemented CI/CD workflows, and delivered scalable microservices for real-time services.
MAR 2020 — JAN 2021
Senior Software Engineer
Designed high-throughput ingestion and real-time analytics pipelines for banking and crypto data.
Developed distributed crypto market-data collection systems and integrated PSD2/OpenBanking APIs for high-throughput analytics use cases.
MAR 2019 — APR 2020
Backend Engineer
Shipped distributed ingestion across 10+ financial data sources.
Built distributed ingestion across financial data sources, low-latency portfolio services, and custom backtesting systems for algorithmic strategies.
JUN 2016 — MAR 2019
Software Developer
Helped deliver ICO backend systems that raised $45M in 15 days.
Designed real-time market-data distribution using MQTT/FIX, delivered microservices for trading and social features, and contributed to wallet/exchange backend systems.
MAY 2015 — JUN 2016
Junior Software Developer
Owned backend architecture on MotiffNetwork as a junior engineer.
Built backend services and UI components across multiple projects, acted as backend lead on MotiffNetwork, and delivered real-time messaging/data-flow systems.
NOV 2013 — JUL 2014
Junior Software Developer
Shipped SMPP and VoIP service features used in production SMS campaigns.
Developed core backend systems for SMS and VoIP marketing solutions, SMPP services with multichannel persistence, and an iOS app for campaign control.
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