Experience
Building systems that scale
Over the years, I've built and scaled backend systems across fintech, education, and SaaS platforms—working with teams that ship production-grade software.
From leading engineering teams at banks to building AI automation pipelines, my work focuses on reliability, performance, and maintainability.
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AI Engineer
Architected and delivered AI solutions used by educators and administrators.
- •Standard Alignment AI Assistant: Built an AI service that analyzes academic standards and aligns them across states, making curriculum design significantly faster
- •College Beyond AI Integration: Designed intelligent workflows to help students get personalized recommendations and support resources
- •Wested Chat (Internal Enterprise AI Tool): Developed an internal AI assistant for Wested staff to access organizational knowledge, research insights, and educational standards
AI & Backend Engineer
Delivered an AI solution for internal QA validation of transformer topology experiments.
- •Automated QA pipeline using LLM-generated datasets
- •Built comparison & validation tools used by engineering teams
- •Worked with large-scale transformer block outputs (y1/y2/y3)
- •Integrated Python, C-emulator workflows, and performance benchmarking
- •Produced QA reports that improved reliability of model testing
Lead Software Developer
Led backend development on large-scale fintech systems serving real customers.
- •Built and maintained scalable, low-latency APIs
- •Maintained 99.9% uptime with sub-200ms latency
- •Improved deployment frequency by 25%
- •Reduced defects by 30% through testing standards
- •Mentored junior engineers into production-ready contributors
- •Implemented OWASP security standards across multiple products
- •Led weekly code reviews
Backend Developer
Built production-ready backend systems across fintech and e-commerce platforms.
- •Implemented wallets and payment systems
- •Designed role-based access systems
- •Built checkout and reporting workflows
- •Performed technical reviews and quality audits
Code Reviewer
- •Reviewed and assessed production-level code
- •Conducted technical interviews
- •Provided developer feedback and mentoring
Full Stack Developer
Built tools for language teachers to improve grading workflows.
Section Lead
Led EU/African cohorts, coordinating distributed project teams and resolving delivery issues.
Web Developer
Built early-stage web systems using Laravel, MySQL, and Bootstrap.