• 750k+ Monthly Active Users
  • 99.98% Platform Availability
  • 2.0s → 1.1s API Latency
  • ~60% Projected Infra Cost Reduction

About

I am a technology executive, former startup CTO and hands-on architect with a background spanning media platforms, distributed systems, cloud and edge infrastructure, search, security and production operations.

My work sits between technology strategy and implementation: defining architecture, building engineering teams and operating models, making infrastructure investment decisions, improving reliability and cost efficiency, and translating product and business requirements into scalable systems.

I currently lead Cloud and Edge engineering streams in a venture-backed energy technology startup, working on resilient, security-sensitive infrastructure for real-time power-grid systems.

Selected Impact

  • Built the initial technology platform for an angel-backed media startup and scaled it to 750k+ monthly active users , 100k+ videos and 35+ distributed production systems .
  • Sustained 99.98% production availability while introducing observability, automated recovery, caching and horizontal scaling practices.
  • Designed and executed a hybrid bare-metal and IaaS strategy that reduced projected infrastructure costs at scale by approximately 60% while preserving resilience and scalability.
  • Defined and led the evolution from monolithic services toward distributed microservices , supported by Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and repeatable deployment practices.
  • Led search architecture from SQL full-text search and Solr toward a custom distributed reverse-index system using Python and in-memory indexing, enabling business-specific ranking and content-discovery logic.
  • Architected multimedia workflows spanning video and image processing , object storage and content delivery, including mood-based content-selection capabilities.
  • Led two engineering teams plus external contributors across hiring, mentoring, planning, delivery, architecture and technical standards.
  • Introduced an ownership-based bi-weekly delivery model that increased sprint completion from approximately 70% to 85%+ .
  • Established security, monitoring, business-continuity and incident-response practices that enabled security events to be contained and remediated within approximately 1–2 hours .
  • Worked directly with CEOs, COOs, founders, investors and partners across technology strategy, platform decisions, fundraising discussions and external representation.

How I Work

  • Architecture before implementation. Understand requirements, constraints, failure boundaries and economics before choosing technologies.
  • Security by design. Security, resilience and observability are architectural properties, not post-release additions.
  • Ownership over micromanagement. Teams perform best when responsibilities, standards and outcomes are explicit while execution remains autonomous.
  • Measure delivery, not activity. Engineering effectiveness is reflected in outcomes, reliability, quality and business impact rather than hours or ceremony.

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