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I am a Rust software engineer and machine learning infrastructure specialist with 13+ years of experience delivering backend systems, distributed architectures, and data processing pipelines. I focus on robust, secure software and thoughtful engineering tradeoffs. I enjoy building scalable systems, exploring ML infrastructure, and automating testing, CI, and deployment. I currently base myself in Kuala Lumpur and collaborate with global teams, delivering high-quality Rust and Python services, streaming data platforms, and DevOps tooling across cloud environments.…I am a Rust software engineer and machine learning infrastructure specialist with 13+ years of experience delivering backend systems, distributed architectures, and data processing pipelines. I focus on robust, secure software and thoughtful engineering tradeoffs. I enjoy building scalable systems, exploring ML infrastructure, and automating testing, CI, and deployment. I currently base myself in Kuala Lumpur and collaborate with global teams, delivering high-quality Rust and Python services, streaming data platforms, and DevOps tooling across cloud environments.

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I am a Rust software engineer and machine learning infrastructure specialist with 13+ years of experience delivering backend systems, distributed architectures, and data processing pipelines. I focus on robust, secure software and thoughtful engineering tradeoffs. I enjoy building scalable systems, exploring ML infrastructure, and automating testing, CI, and deployment. I currently base myself in Kuala Lumpur and collaborate with global teams, delivering high-quality Rust and Python services, streaming data platforms, and DevOps tooling across cloud environments.…I am a Rust software engineer and machine learning infrastructure specialist with 13+ years of experience delivering backend systems, distributed architectures, and data processing pipelines. I focus on robust, secure software and thoughtful engineering tradeoffs. I enjoy building scalable systems, exploring ML infrastructure, and automating testing, CI, and deployment. I currently base myself in Kuala Lumpur and collaborate with global teams, delivering high-quality Rust and Python services, streaming data platforms, and DevOps tooling across cloud environments.

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I am a Rust software engineer and machine learning infrastructure specialist with 13+ years of experience delivering backend systems, distributed architectures, and data processing pipelines. I focus on robust, secure software and thoughtful engineering tradeoffs. I enjoy building scalable systems, exploring ML infrastructure, and automating testing, CI, and deployment.

I currently base myself in Kuala Lumpur and collaborate with global teams, delivering high-quality Rust and Python services, streaming data platforms, and DevOps tooling across cloud environments.

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Rust Software Engineer at BHFT

April 1, 2024 - November 22, 2025

Development of trading platform infrastructure using an actor-based paradigm; policy-based distributed authorization with audit logging; telemetry proxy for query rewriting; new gRPC endpoints for data streams; SQL query optimization via regex prefilters (38x speedup).

Rust Software Engineer at Eloe Inc

October 1, 2023 - October 1, 2023

Developed replicated accounting ledger with 100k+ TPS throughput, startup memory preallocation, custom IO driver with no allocations on IO path, and a deterministic replication protocol.

Rust Software Engineer at NXLog

June 1, 2023 - June 1, 2023

Designed internal service for NXLog Cloud Platform; API and data access layers using Rocket and SQLx; proposed decentralized end-to-end authorization; contributed to SQLx Toolkit (portal fix and transaction retry improvements).

Lead Software Engineer at RingCentral

May 1, 2022 - May 1, 2022

Pioneered GitOps with canary deployments (Flux/Flagger); experimented with ML training infrastructure for speech recognition; streaming inference service for language detection; tools for data preparation and multi-language dataset curation; Rust-based speech recognition backend; RTP streams synchronization; data migrations (MongoDB); CI improvements (Bazel, Docker, GitLab).

Software Engineer, Personal Research Project at Self-initiated

March 1, 2021 - November 22, 2025

Developing Rust algorithms for ridepooling; opened-source solvers for weighted matching problems.

ML Infrastructure Engineer at Intelligence Retail

April 1, 2020 - April 1, 2020

Built distributed image recognition infrastructure on RabbitMQ and Kubernetes; contributed async inference interface to MMdetection; improved MaskRCNN throughput; Docker image size reductions and inference speedups; migrated infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform; added scale-to-zero for HPA with external metrics; introduced reproducible DL platform (Polyaxon).

Data Engineer at Conde Nast

February 1, 2018 - February 1, 2018

Architected Kafka-based Data Management Platform (content storage, segmentation service, content-based recommendation engine); built realtime clickstream processing; mentored data scientists; production hardening of prototypes.

Senior Software Engineer at Lamoda.ru

January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2016

Created stable backend service for discount and loyalty programs; built multi-environment CI; developed Ansible-based configuration management; opensourced Django integration into Spyne RPC toolkit; organized metric data collection via Graphite; created concurrent token generation client using Golang; performance profiling and optimization; packaging and release automation.

Software Engineer at Rambler Games

May 1, 2013 - May 1, 2013

Built digital distribution e-shop from scratch; designed e-shop architecture on Django; implemented business logic, discounts, bonuses, and shipment systems; integrated payment gates and suppliers; created data loading utilities; REST APIs; Celery task queue; back office admin and testing tooling.

Software Engineer at Nevod

May 1, 2010 - May 1, 2010

Django/ExtJS web projects; infrastructure improvements (OpenVZ); monitoring (Zabbix); automated backups; VPN for remote offices; corporate server solutions.

Rust Software Engineer at NXLog

June 1, 2022 - June 30, 2023

Design and development of internal service for NXLog Cloud Platform; proposed workflow-based fault-tolerant architecture; API and data access layers using Rocket framework and SQLx; decentralized end-to-end authorization of microservice call chains; contributed to SQLx Toolkit including fix for unclosed PostgreSQL portal and a concurrency-safe API layer with transaction retries.

Lead Software Engineer at RingCentral

August 1, 2020 - May 31, 2022

Implemented GitOps and canary deployment approach using Flux/Flagger; built ML training infrastructure for speech recognition including streaming inference service, data preparation tools, and hyperparameter optimization; developed Rust-based speech recognition and Meeting Notes backend; implemented RTP stream synchronization, MongoDB data migrations; improved startup performance with Kubernetes probes and Kafka-based messaging; set up CI with Bazel, Docker, Gitlab and rustfmt.

Software Engineer (Personal Research Project) at Independent

March 1, 2021 - Present

Developing algorithms for ride-pooling using Rust; exploring optimization and distributed computation approaches.

ML Infrastructure Engineer at Intelligence Retail

February 1, 2018 - April 30, 2020

Built distributed image recognition infrastructure using RabbitMQ and Kubernetes; contributed async inference interface to mmdetection; boosted MaskRCNN inference throughput by ~17%; reduced Docker image size and improved inference speed; migrated infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform; added scale-to-zero support to Kubernetes HPA; implemented reproducible DL platform on Polyaxon; developed domain-specific algorithms using Numba.

Data Engineer at Conde Nast

February 1, 2017 - February 1, 2018

Architected Kafka-based Data Management Platform for content, segmentation, and recommendations; hardened prototypes from data scientists; built real-time clickstream processing; mentored data scientists.

Senior Software Engineer at Lamoda.ru

August 1, 2013 - January 31, 2016

Created backend services for discount and loyalty programs; built multi-environment CI pipelines; developed Ansible-based configuration management; Open-sourced Django integration with Spyne RPC; implemented Graphite metrics; built Go-based token generation client; performance profiling and deployment automation; packaging and release management.

Software Engineer at Rambler Games

August 1, 2011 - May 31, 2013

Built digital distribution shop from scratch; designed Django-based e-shop architecture; implemented ecommerce features, payments, shopping portals, and integrations; built REST APIs; implemented back-office tools and Celery-based tasks; frontend with Backbone.js; supported data loading with factories.

Software Engineer at Nevod

October 1, 2008 - May 31, 2010

Django and ExtJS web projects; containerized infrastructure; monitoring with Zabbix; automated backups; VPN-based office linking; supported corporate servers on Linux; provided second-level technical support.