CTO and Senior Engineer at SocialHP

Led technology and development direction at an SaaS platform used by organizations for publishing social media posts as well as tracking and analyzing their performance. :: Maintained and extended a legacy Zend framework codebase in parallel with a full platform rebuild, keeping production stable throughout the transition. :: Designed, built, and led a ground-up platform rebuild in API Platform and Symfony using Domain-Driven Design, replacing a legacy system without service interruption. :: Thirteen years as the sole author of nearly all backend code (and 20-30% of the frontend code) across both legacy and rebuilt platforms. :: Designed and executed a live database migration from MySQL to PostgreSQL, then extended the data layer with ElasticSearch via a CDC-driven pipeline with very minimal downtime in production. :: Scaled infrastructure from a single VM to a Kubernetes deployment on Google Cloud, owning architecture decisions at every stage of growth. :: Built and maintained internal libraries for asset resizing, multi-transport email, and multi-source content ingestion. :: Led and managed a dev team of 2–8, including hiring, code review, and technical direction.