SYS / 01
Mercury Ledger API
Idempotent transaction APIs and an event pipeline for a high-volume fintech dashboard.
Node.jsPostgresKafka
Backend Developer / Systems Builder
Build the core. Ship the signal.
I design dependable APIs, data flows, and service architectures that keep products fast, observable, and resilient under real-world load.
~/copper-kernel $ healthcheck
{
"latency": "42ms",
"uptime": "99.98%",
"queue": "drained",
"status": "ready"
}
~/copper-kernel $
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01 / Profile
Quietly complex.
Precisely built.
I am a backend-focused engineer who turns product requirements into clean service boundaries, predictable data models, and production-ready infrastructure. My approach is practical: make the happy path fast, make failure visible, and keep the system understandable six months later.
API designVersioned REST, event-driven contracts, authentication and rate limiting.
Data systemsRelational modeling, caching, queues, migrations and query performance.
ReliabilityObservability, graceful degradation, testing and incident-aware architecture.
02 / Stack
The tools
behind the core.
A deliberately focused stack for building services that are easy to deploy, monitor and evolve.
Node.js
92
PostgreSQL
89
Python
86
Redis
82
Docker
84
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+---------------+
| API GATEWAY |--- auth / rate limit
+-------+-------+
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v
+--------------------+
| SERVICE BOUNDARIES |
| users . billing |
| search . events |
+-------+------------+
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+----+----+
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Postgres Redis
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observable
logs . traces . metrics
03 / Systems
Selected builds.
Projects where architecture, performance and product impact meet.
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SYS / 02
Atlas Search Core
Low-latency search service with cache-aware query routing and resilient indexing jobs.
PythonRedisOpenSearch
SYS / 03
Pulse Dispatch
Multi-channel notification service with retry policies, dead-letter queues and delivery telemetry.
TypeScriptQueuesDocker
04 / Experience
Built in production.
2023 - PRESENT
Senior Backend Developer · Northstar Labs
Own service architecture for customer-facing platforms, improving API reliability and reducing slow-query incidents through better boundaries and instrumentation.
2021 - 2023
Backend Developer · Orbit Commerce
Built order, inventory and fulfillment services, introduced automated integration tests and helped move workloads into containerized deployments.
2019 - 2021
Software Engineer · Foundry Systems
Delivered internal APIs and data workflows, partnering with frontend and product teams to turn ambiguous requirements into stable contracts.