Leading engineering for Pepper Content, an AI-powered organic marketing stack used by Acceldata, Algolia, Adobe, Mutual of Omaha, and 2,500+ customers worldwide.

• Set technical direction across backend, data, and infrastructure while staying close to architecture and delivery.
• Guide a team of 10+ engineers through system design, code review, and platform priorities.

Founding backend engineer. Helped grow the platform from early product into a multi-product enterprise SaaS ecosystem.

• Designed core backend services powering 500K+ accounts, 60M+ analytical events, and multi-tenant enterprise workflows.
• Built event-driven pipelines with Kafka and ClickHouse for near real-time analytics across products.
• Shipped realtime collaborative document editing in Rust, and a cloud-native warehouse path with PeerDB, Debezium CDC, Kafka, and ClickHouse.
• Modernized infrastructure across AWS and GCP, cutting annual cloud spend by more than $70,000 while improving deploy reliability.

Built backend services for a mobile-first learning platform used by BFSI, insurance, and healthcare teams.

• Delivered APIs and workflows for assessments, content delivery, progress tracking, and engagement analytics.
• Implemented realtime contest leaderboards over WebSockets for high-concurrency quiz sessions.

Built a startup–investor discovery platform and owned delivery across web apps, internal tools, and cloud operations.

• Shipped customer-facing and internal products with Node.js, PHP, React, and MySQL.
• Operated infrastructure across AWS, DigitalOcean, and Cloudflare.