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EXPERIENCE_JOURNAL
2024
Staff Engineer @ Stripe
Led infrastructure reliability for payment processing at scale.
ARCHITECTURAL IMPACTS:
- Designed real-time idempotency layer handling 25k requests/sec
- Reduced processing tail latency (p99.9) by 140ms using Rust sidecars
- Mentored a core team of 8 senior and principal engineers
2023
Senior Frontend @ Vercel
Core contributor to Next.js App Router and Turbopack.
ARCHITECTURAL IMPACTS:
- Optimized hot module replacement speeds for Turbopack in Next.js 14
- Refactored asynchronous boundary routing handlers for SSR stability
- Drafted primary architecturalRFCs for layout transition lifecycle hooks
2021
Founding Engineer @ Linear
Built the real-time sync engine from scratch (Yjs + CRDTs).
ARCHITECTURAL IMPACTS:
- Authored localized IndexedDB sync cache layer supporting offline operations
- Designed transaction compaction pipeline reducing network payload weights by 45%
- Maintained 99.99% socket message delivery rate over custom WebSockets client
2019
Backend Engineer @ Algolia
Search indexing pipeline and distributed query routing.
ARCHITECTURAL IMPACTS:
- Rewrote index distribution clusters in C++/Go, improving query times by 20%
- Engineered automated shard failover protocol for European search clusters
- Developed telemetry parsing tools used to detect search anomaly patterns