Senior Backend/Full-Stack Engineer specializing in scalable microservices on AWS
Menlo Park, CASenior Software Engineer7 years experienceSeniorTechnologyTransportation & LogisticsE-commerce
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Backend/data engineer with production experience at Uber building a near real-time driver rewards service on AWS (FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis) with strong reliability and concurrency controls. Also delivered AWS Lambda/ECS containerized deployments with GitHub Actions CI/CD and cost governance, built AWS Glue ETL with schema-evolution handling, and drove a ~10x SQL performance improvement while owning incident response via CloudWatch.
Experience
Senior Software EngineerUber
Software EngineerAmazon
Software Engineer InternAmazon
Education
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaignmaster, Computer Engineering (2018)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaignbachelor, Computer Engineering (2016)
Key Strengths
Built and maintained near real-time Python backend on AWS (FastAPI/PostgreSQL/Redis) for driver rewards
Reliability engineering: auth checks, timeouts/retries, clear error logging and alerting
Resolved high-concurrency update inconsistencies via controlled processing and DB safeguards
Designed AWS deployments using Lambda + ECS/Docker with GitHub Actions CI/CD and managed secrets
Implemented cost controls for auto-scaling systems via limits and regular usage reviews
Built AWS Glue ETL with crawlers for schema evolution plus data quality checks and retry/alerting
Modernized legacy calculation logic into maintainable Python with side-by-side parity testing and stakeholder sign-off