8+ years designing and scaling the systems behind fintech, SpaceTech, social and entertainment products. I’m at my best owning a large slice of the product from 0→1 and 1→100.
A few systems I’ve owned end to end, with the outcome that mattered attached.
At Made Card, I build the backend behind card, payment and data workflows for a growing B2B2C product.
Architected the end-to-end ordering platform powering a core revenue path, across 5 teams and 5+ services.
As the first employee, designed the backend, processing pipeline and social primitives for a video platform.
Migrated a high-traffic backend from PHP to Go and rebuilt the search path around better data and caching decisions.
Built the foundation for a commerce product, including unified payment gateways, dynamic pricing and messaging.
Technical depth, product judgment, and the ownership to ship.
140K+ people follow along for notes on agentic workflows, indie products and the changing shape of software work.
Open X profileI’ve been the first engineer at a startup, owning backend foundations from architecture through launch — and the product decisions around them.
Talk about an early-stage roleI’ve tried a lot of ideas and doubled down on NicheTrafficKit once it started making money — a practical loop of building, learning and iterating.
Visit NicheTrafficKitI like difficult backend problems, tight feedback loops and teams that care about the user on the other side of the API.
Talk about a problemIf you’re building something ambitious and need a backend engineer who can own the shape of the system, I’d like to hear about it.