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Senior Backend Engineer with 8+ years of experience architecting and delivering scalable backend, AI, cloud, and full-stack systems across ad tech, energy intelligence, digital experience platforms, and agency-built web products. Hands-on engineering across Python, Go, Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, PHP, and SQL, building production REST/gRPC APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and secure platform services.
Focused on AI/back-end engineering including RAG platforms, multi-format document ingestion, document intelligence, layout-aware chunking, embeddings, semantic search, vector retrieval, and LLM integrations with model-provider abstraction. AWS-leaning with strong production observability, performance tuning, and end-to-end ownership from requirements to deployment and ongoing iteration.
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Software Engineer – Back-end at Stirista
February 1, 2024 - May 1, 2026Owned the design and implementation of scalable, low-latency Go backend services for real-time programmatic advertising under strict auction-time SLAs and high-QPS traffic. Built and evolved bidder and serving services including bid ingestion, eligibility filtering, pacing, frequency capping, budget enforcement, and auction decisioning with attention to memory efficiency and concurrency. Designed exchange-facing OpenRTB-style APIs and delivered high-performance REST/gRPC services using Protobuf with validation, caching, rate limiting, backpressure handling, and resilient client patterns. Implemented event-driven microservices using Kafka and Redis Streams for impression/click/conversion ingestion while decoupling serving from downstream analytics. Delivered asynchronous and batch pipelines for reporting, aggregations, backfills, and audits to protect latency-sensitive auction paths. Built a traffic quality/fraud detection subsystem integrated into the bidder pipeline using IP analysis,
Senior Back-end and AI Engineer at Wood Mackenzie
July 1, 2021 - January 1, 2024Architected and built an AWS-based RAG platform for multi-format knowledge ingestion and retrieval (PDF, HTML, and image content) enabling intelligent search and LLM-ready context. Implemented a high-throughput Python ingestion pipeline with event-driven processing separating upload, parsing, chunking, embedding, indexing, and search concerns. Integrated Unstructured for parsing, layout-aware chunking, and metadata extraction to improve semantic chunk quality. Built decoupled ingestion orchestration using S3 events, SNS, and SQS with retry policies, dead-letter handling, idempotency guards, and failure isolation for replayable processing. Developed a modular embedding service supporting multiple providers/models and integrated foundation models via AWS Bedrock (Titan, Cohere, Claude Sonnet, Nova). Indexed embeddings into Amazon OpenSearch using k-NN and built a low-latency semantic search API with FastAPI, including MMR retrieval and tuned OpenSearch vector retrieval parameters (HNSW t
Senior Software Engineer at Optimizely
April 1, 2019 - October 1, 2021Built backend and platform services for digital experience workflows including experimentation, personalization, content management, analytics, and commerce capabilities in a multi-product SaaS environment. Designed and maintained REST APIs and internal service contracts across Python, Go, Java, and Node.js for experiment configuration, audience rules, feature flag/rollout settings, and reporting. Implemented experimentation services including deterministic bucketing and traffic allocation, targeting rule evaluation, rollout controls, and cached configuration delivery for low-latency client access. Built event ingestion and processing pipelines for impressions/clicks/conversions using idempotent handlers, validation, and deduplication patterns to preserve analytics integrity. Improved personalization workflows using user attributes, audience segments, behavioral events, and rule-based targeting logic. Integrated CMS/commerce/product metadata for synchronization, preview, and publishing
Full Stack Engineer at Bitcot
October 1, 2017 - April 1, 2019Built agency web applications across frontend, backend, database, and deployment for startups and growth-stage businesses. Developed responsive React/JavaScript interfaces for dashboards, marketing sites, e-commerce pages, and SaaS workflows. Implemented Node.js/Express and PHP/Laravel backend features including authentication, CRUD workflows, admin tools, forms, notifications, and third-party integrations. Wrote Python scripts and utilities for data imports, CSV/report processing, API integration testing, deployment support, and automation tasks. Designed MySQL/PostgreSQL schemas, wrote efficient queries, and supported data migrations from spreadsheets/legacy systems. Connected payment, email, analytics, and CRM APIs using lightweight adapters and webhook handlers. Supported QA and release cycles by addressing cross-browser issues, adding basic tests, validating responsive behavior, and fixing bugs before client demos. Assisted with AWS/Docker and Git-based CI/CD workflows and collabo
Education
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science at Vista College
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2016Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science at Vista College
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2016Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science at Vista College
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2016Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science at Vista College
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2016Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science at Vista College
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2016Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science at Vista College
January 1, 2012 - December 31, 2016Qualifications
Solution and Software Architecture Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Python Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Golang Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Django Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026REST API Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Java Spring Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026AI/ML Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026AWS Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Kubernetes Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Solution and Software Architecture Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Python Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Golang Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Django Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026REST API Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Java Spring Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026AI/ML Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026AWS Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Kubernetes Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Solution and Software Architecture Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Python Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Golang Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Django Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026REST API Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Java Spring Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026AI/ML Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026AWS Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Kubernetes Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Solution and Software Architecture Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Python Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Golang Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Django Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026REST API Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Java Spring Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026AI/ML Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026AWS Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Kubernetes Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Solution and Software Architecture Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Python Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Golang Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Django Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026REST API Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Java Spring Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026AI/ML Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026AWS Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Kubernetes Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 17, 2026Solution and Software Architecture Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 18, 2026Python Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 18, 2026Golang Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 18, 2026Django Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 18, 2026REST API Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 18, 2026Java Spring Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 18, 2026AI/ML Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 18, 2026AWS Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 18, 2026Kubernetes Certification
January 11, 2030 - July 18, 2026Industry Experience
Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment, Energy & Utilities, Professional Services, Telecommunications, Computers & Electronics, Other, Education
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