Staff Software Engineer — Backend, Platform & Cloud Infrastructure, Quartermaster
May, 2025 - Present
Staff engineer leading backend, platform, and cloud infrastructure initiatives for a high-scale services platform. Own core APIs, payments systems, and cloud-native architecture with strong focus on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
Designed and maintained secure backend APIs using Node.js and TypeScript with strong validation and access control patterns.
Implemented authentication-aware booking and financial workflows ensuring data integrity and user-level isolation.
Led Kubernetes-based platform development on AWS EKS, designing deployment strategies, service scaling, and production-grade cluster architecture.
Developed and maintained Terraform modules to provision and manage AWS infrastructure including EKS, RDS, networking, IAM, and CI/CD integrations.
Owned containerization strategy and CI/CD pipelines, improving release reliability and deployment speed.
Improved PostgreSQL performance through query optimization, indexing strategies, and caching for high-traffic workloads.
Participated in and led production incident response, strengthening observability, monitoring, and operational runbooks.
Mentored engineers and led architecture discussions across backend and infrastructure domains.