Aug 2024 – Jul 2025 · 11 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Hybrid

• Building in fintech & payments. Worked on integrating open banking provider, custom authentication, dispute automation.

Jan 2024 – Aug 2024 · 7 mos · EST Timezone · Remote

• Working on a security platform in Go and React. Built the Trust Page product end-to-end with custom domain support. Built the back-end for the access reviews feature.

Dec 2021 – Dec 2023 · 2 yrs

• A fund of 300+ Y Combinator alumni in investing in the top companies of YC and our Venture Partner network.

Sep 2021 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos · EST Timezone · Remote

• Mentum enables multi-family offices and wealth managers to connect data from any onshore and offshore bank, broker-dealer, or custodian to any system and access insights powered by artificial intelligence.
• Through our data-aggregation SaaS, we served clients with $4B+ USD AUM. The platform allows wealth managers, MFOs and investment advisors to extract data from multiple custodians in real-time, in a unified format.
• The first product we built at Mentum was an embedded investment API for LATAM that allowed fintechs to offer investment portfolios, stocks, and funds, inside of their app. We launched the product from scratch and had live transactions on the Chilean stock exchange.
• Contributions as CTO:
• Successfully built and launched two key products from scratch to production, serving scalable, real-world customer needs.
• Led and managed teams focused on developing innovative investment infrastructure and wealth-tech solutions. Ensured high-standard and strong paced engineering output.
• Conducted interviews for approximately 200 candidates, hiring and managing 8 engineers internationally and 10 professionals in total across the company.

Jun 2021 – Sep 2021 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Developed new connector features for Fortune 500 clients, including financial companies. Resolved high priority customer issues, and worked on contracts that had multi-year deals at stake.
• Contributed to the Apache Kafka open source project used by the company and open source community.
• Took part in on-call shifts to ensure the 24/7 uptime of the company’s cloud product. Actively worked with consulting engineering, on-site teams, attended and led customer calls for multi-million contract clients.
• Improved memory utilization and efficiency in connectors. Fixed several security vulnerabilities, race conditions, design flaws, improved code maintainability. Resolved long-running and complex design issues in connectors. Fixed connection leaks. Added DLQ support for the most popular connectors.
• Shipped a connector for the company’s cloud offering. Managed connectors in Confluent’s cloud native environment. Helped transition on-prem software to the cloud. Contributed to the company’s internal disaster recovery project. Published a technical blogpost about Kerberos on the company’s blog.
• Technologies: database connectors, file store connectors, HDFS, Hive, SFTP, file systems and leases. Kerberos authentication. Output streams, partial uploads, exactly once guarantees and commits. Offset recovery in connectors. Google Cloud Spanner, S3, GCP, AWS, K8s.

Jan 2020 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Backend Engineer on the Kafka Connect team, working on connectors that allow customers to leverage event streaming to and from their existing data stores. Java, Maven, Kafka

May 2019 – Aug 2019 · 3 mos · Palo Atlo, CA

• Intern on the Kafka Connect team. Developed a sink connector for streaming data from Kafka to an external database. Complete project ownership: engineering design one pager, development, integration testing, performance testing and documentation. Java, Kafka

Jun 2018 – Aug 2018 · 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Intern on the iCloud Photos team. Integrated distributed tracing into backend systems; worked on new functionality for cloud services and helped make them production ready. Worked on high priority issues and with teams internationally. C++, Java, Docker, Zipkin

Sep 2017 – Dec 2017 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Intern on the iCloud Photos team. Worked on a backend cloud service; developed backend features for a service that will be used in production serving millions of users. Java, C++.

May 2017 – Aug 2017 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Developed a big data service in Go that streams protocol buffer messages into a BigQuery database. Wrote iOS integration tests for Gyroscope’s main service using various testing frameworks. Tech: Docker, GCP, CircleCI, Kubernetes, Bazel, Google EarlGrey, XCTests, Pods, Redis. Worked in the Samsung NEXT startup incubator in San Francisco.