Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr

• Created an open source, serverless runtime for building collaborative web applications.
• Integrated a CRDT-based conflict resolution mechanism with real-time state propagation.
• Built a custom load-testing tool which simulates N virtual collaborating users.
• Redesigned backend architecture to allow for horizontal scaling to tens of thousands of users.
• Engineered a custom backend orchestrator and reverse proxy which dynamically schedules
• collaborative sessions.
• Setup real-time monitoring with Prometheus and created a UI with React, Tailwind CSS and Grafana.
• Implemented a persistence layer with snapshotting that periodically persists state to Google Cloud
• Storage.
• Built and published the Symphony client library as an NPM package.
• Automated the deployment and configuration of the Symphony runtime on Google Cloud Platform
• (GCP) including Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud SQL, and Cloud Storage down to a
• one-click deploy using Terraform via the Symphony CLI.
• Reduced K8s pod cold-start time by 10x using balloon pods with K8s PriorityClass resources.
• Developed a security model in line with the principle of least privilege, by utilising namespacing,
• configuring K8s Role-based access control (RBAC), Google Workload Identity, and creating
• private subnets with VPC peering.
• Authored a case study on Symphony’s problem domain, design decisions, and challenges.

Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs · Remote

• Client projects worked on include:
• 37signals, Security, Performance and Infrastructure (SIP)
• . Re-engineered spam filtering infrastructure based on Rspamd to allow configuration including spam-rules to be modified dynamically with zero-downtime.
• . Designed and implemented a rolling account log, with fuzzy search allowing spammy signups to be found and marked as fake across all 37signals’ services with the click of a button.
• . Optimised internal tooling including improving load times of our billing dashboard by 40% and implementing primary owner transfers for HEY for Domain accounts via our internal dashboard.
• . Improved Basecamp project export pipeline performance by 20%.
• . Responded to security reports from ethical hackers as part of 37signals’ bug bounty program.
• Independently released pzip, an open-source concurrent zip archiver, 15x faster than Info-ZIP, written in Go.
• Hardwary- Hacker News for Hardware, which served 30k requests per day at its peak (Rails, PostgreSQL).
• Terminal- A web-based tool for debugging webhooks (Express, Next.js, PostgreSQL MongoDB, RabbitMQ).
• ipromise- a custom Promise polyfill conforming to the Promise/A+ specification and a custom async/await polyfill.

Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr · London, England, United Kingdom

• Prepared and prosecuted UK, US, and European patent applications primarily in relation to software-defined networking (SDN), distributed databases, and cloud infrastructure.
• Implemented text-processing scripts in Ruby improving time-efficiency of billable legal work by 20%.

Jun 2020 – Jul 2020 · 1 mo · London, England, United Kingdom

• Received a training contract offer

Sep 2019 – Jun 2020 · 9 mos