I have over 15 years of experience in the software industry, most recently working as a tech lead and backend engineer.
I’m more of a problem-solver than a technologist: I try to keep a business perspective in software discussions and provide technical insight to non-engineers. I tend to assume a leadership role in the teams I integrate, leading by example and from experience rather than title. Because I think that software development is primarily a human activity, I place a high value on effective communication and knowledge sharing.
I designed, developed, and operated large-scale distributed systems using various technologies and programming languages (Python, Erlang, Rust, JavaScript, AWS, PostgreSQL). I also have significant experience in technical writing, legacy modernizations, project management, DevOps, and full-stack web development. I write about software on my blog and have published several Open-Source Software projects.
Software Engineer
Jan 2026 - Present
Full-Stack design and development for a startup aiming to automate scientific research through software, AI, and robotics.
Software Engineer
Sep 2024 - Dec 2025
Design, development, and operations on the Billing Team of a genetic testing company.
Software Engineering Consultant
Feb 2024 - Aug 2024
Assisted an early-stage startup building a data extraction service around Large Language Models.
Staff Software Engineer
Jul 2022 - Mar 2023
As a Staff Engineer I report directly to the CEO. I provided technical leadership for about 20 people on a newly formed organization within the company. I started a Platform Team to support the rest of the organization and later led a distributed systems research and development effort.
Senior Software Engineer @NextRoll
Feb 2018 - Jul 2022
As part of the Real-time bidding team, I worked on design, development, maintenance and operation of the bidding service and its support systems. These were decade-old systems, deployed to 2000 servers across the world, with high traffic and low latency restrictions. Operations work included infrastructure set up, deploys, monitoring, and production incident handling.
I assumed informal leadership of the team during its 3x growth and collaborated in projects with internal and external stakeholders (Engineering, Product, Legal, Supply, Ad Exchanges, Service providers).
Some of the work efforts I led at NextRoll:
Senior Software Engineer
Jun 2017 - Feb 2018
As one of the first engineers to join LambdaClass, I divided my time between open-source projects and contractor work for one of the clients.
Senior Software Engineer
Mar 2016 - Jun 2017
As part of the Core Services team, I designed and developed a Backend as a Service platform to support the mobile applications developed by the company. The platform, implemented by a set of microservices, provided integration with external services as well as support functionality like authentication, authorization, analytics and caching.
I led the design of some of the most complex features of the platform such as a decentralised system for environment migrations and On-Premise to Cloud communications through a cluster of Web Sockets.
Tech Lead @National Geographic
May 2013 - Mar 2015
As the lead Engineer of the Services Team, I designed and developed a set of RESTful services used by systems across the organization. I interviewed candidates, mentored new members of the team, scoped projects and acted as the technical touchpoint between the customer and the consultancy managers.
Senior Python Developer @National Geographic
May 2013 - Mar 2014
Backend development for the National Geographic Magazine online edition.
Python/Django Developer
Jul 2010 - May 2013
Full stack development of web applications for both local and US-based customers.