Backend Software Engineer

Backend engineer with 6+ years building scalable distributed systems. Expert in Python (Django, Flask, FastAPI) with growing proficiency in Scala (Cats, Cats Effect, Http4s) and Go. Led infrastructure migrations handling 700K+ requests per day and scaled systems serving 15%+ of US independent mortgage originations.

🎓 B.S. Computer Science · St. John's University, Queens NY · 2020

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Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Gen

Oct 2025 – May 2026 · New York, NY (Hybrid)

700K+

Requests/Day

5M+

Leads/Month

Led the in-sourcing and migration of an outsourced Django application (~700K requests/day) from EC2 to ECS and RDS to Aurora; implemented IaC with Terraform to eliminate manual overhead and improve reliability.
Developed internal rule-based decision engines using Scala, Cats, and Http4s, while managing partner integrations via a high-throughput Django REST platform.
Designed a data pipeline (Snowflake → S3 → Lambda → SQS → application) to process over 5 million leads monthly for automated offer refreshes.
Supported a decisioning platform for credit card partners, enabling secure execution of partner-provided decision engines via containerized environments.

Senior Software Engineer

OptiFunder

Sep 2021 – Oct 2025 · Promoted May 2023 · Remote, NY

15%

US Market

200%

Query Speed

Led the design and development of high-performance Django and Flask applications, serving over 15% of all US independent mortgage originations; utilized a modern frontend stack of HTMX, Alpine.js, and React with Tailwind CSS.
Orchestrated the migration to a microservices-based architecture for the loan optimization engine, leveraging asyncio, threading, and distributed tasks via Google Cloud Tasks/Jobs.
Engineered and maintained robust RESTful APIs using Django REST Framework, ensuring high availability and secure data processing.
Redesigned and normalized legacy database schemas, resulting in a 200% improvement in query performance and overall system efficiency.
Managed large-scale cloud deployments on GCP using Terraform (IaC), while establishing comprehensive testing standards with Pytest.
Mentored a team of 3-5 developers, driving technical decisions, conducting code reviews, and steering the product roadmap.

Software Engineer

Trimble Maps

Oct 2020 – Oct 2021 · Princeton, NJ

15%

Faster Deploys

30%

Query Speed

Developed backend services using .NET Core and deployed in Docker containers on AWS to support high-volume GPS mapping and logistics operations.
Automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Python, and Chef, reducing deployment times by 15%.
Modernized REST and SOAP services using ASP.NET Web APIs, ensuring high availability with blue-green deployment strategies.
Wrote unit tests for APIs using NUnit and XUnit, achieving 85% code coverage.
Enhanced SQL Server database transactions and performance, reducing query response times by 30%.

Open Source

Django Storages

PR #1427 →

Developed feature for Google Cloud Compute services to generate signed URLs via IAM API. Collaborated with maintainers to ensure secure integration that benefits the broader community.