Senior Software Engineer
Mobile, Backend & Platform Architecture
- •Architect scalable systems that reduce operational risk while enabling product velocity
- •5+ years of professional experience shipping mobile and backend platforms from zero to scale
- •Deep mobile expertise: React Native authority, iOS/Android publishing, offline-first systems
- •Bridge technical execution and business objectives through clear communication and trade-off analysis
Technical Strategy
Engineering leadership requires aligning technical execution with business outcomes, managing risk through architecture, and building systems that scale with minimal operational overhead.
Business-aligned architecture
Technical decisions serve company objectives. Architecture choices reduce time-to-market while maintaining long-term flexibility and reducing technical debt.
Risk mitigation through design
Proactive risk management: graceful degradation, comprehensive monitoring, automated incident response, and rollback strategies built into every system.
Scale through operational discipline
Reliability at scale requires automation, observability, and team ownership. Clear SLAs, performance budgets, and runbooks prevent firefighting culture.
Pragmatic over perfect
Ship strategically. Technical excellence balanced against delivery timelines, team capacity, and market constraints. Perfectionism delays value.
Architecture Case Studies
Strategic system design addressing business risk, operational constraints, and scalability requirements. Each case demonstrates ownership from problem analysis through measurable production outcomes.
Problem & Risk
Consumer app required reliable operation in low-connectivity environments. Traditional sync caused data conflicts and user frustration. Risk: customer churn in key growth markets.
Architecture Decision
Event sourcing with optimistic UI updates and conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs) for multi-device sync. Local-first architecture with IndexedDB persistence. Queue-based sync with exponential backoff and automatic conflict resolution.
Business Impact
85% reduction in sync errors. 40% increase in retention in target markets. App functions fully offline with automatic reconciliation. Positioned company for international expansion without infrastructure overhead.
Problem & Risk
Monolithic PostgreSQL became bottleneck at scale. Analytics queries degraded checkout performance. Risk: revenue loss during peak traffic, customer experience degradation.
Architecture Decision
Polyglot persistence with domain-driven design. PostgreSQL for transactions (orders, payments), DynamoDB for session state, MongoDB for product catalog. Event-driven sync via Kafka for eventual consistency. Read replicas isolated from write path.
Business Impact
4x read query performance improvement. 99.99% uptime during Black Friday. Analytics moved to dedicated cluster with zero checkout impact. Database costs reduced 30% through optimized instance sizing.
Problem & Risk
Manual iOS/Android releases took 3 days per platform. Frequent compliance rejections caused missed launch windows. No rollback strategy created extended outages. Risk: market timing failures and revenue loss.
Architecture Decision
Custom CLI tooling for metadata management, screenshot generation, and compliance validation. Fastlane-based pipelines with staged rollouts (5% → 25% → 100%). Feature flags enabling instant rollback without app store review delays.
Operational Excellence
Release time: 3 days → 4 hours. Zero compliance rejections in 18 months. Instant feature rollback prevented 3 production outages. Launch window reliability improved go-to-market execution.
Problem & Risk
30+ microservices made production debugging nearly impossible. Mean time to resolution (MTTR) was 4+ hours. Customer-impacting incidents caused reputational damage. Risk: SLA violations and customer attrition.
Architecture Decision
OpenTelemetry instrumentation across all services with distributed tracing. Centralized logging with structured logs and correlation IDs. Service mesh (Istio) for traffic management, circuit breakers, and automatic retries. Real-time alerting with runbook automation.
Risk Reduction
MTTR: 4 hours → 20 minutes. Identified 12 critical performance bottlenecks in first month. P99 latency reduced 60%. SLA compliance improved from 95% to 99.5%. Engineering team could focus on features instead of firefighting.
Leadership & Ownership
Technical leadership means ownership of outcomes, not just outputs. Setting direction, managing risk, and ensuring engineering execution aligns with business strategy.
End-to-end ownership
Accountable for technical outcomes from architecture decisions through production deployment. Own system reliability, performance targets, and team execution against delivery timelines.
Technical direction
Set engineering standards, architectural patterns, and technology strategy. Mentor senior engineers on system design, trade-off analysis, and career progression. Build technical culture that values pragmatism and operational excellence.
Executive communication
Translate technical constraints into business language. Articulate architecture decisions, risk trade-offs, and resource requirements to founders and executives. Align engineering roadmap with company strategy.
Operations & Reliability
Reliability at scale requires operational discipline. Automated pipelines, proactive monitoring, and clear incident response processes reduce business risk and enable predictable delivery.
Automated CI/CD pipelines with multi-stage environments. Infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation). Zero-downtime deployments with blue-green and canary strategies. Rollback automation triggered by error rate thresholds.
Real-time monitoring with performance budgets and SLA tracking. Distributed tracing across microservices. Automated alerting with runbook integration. Metrics dashboards for executive visibility into system health.
Structured incident response with clear escalation paths. Automated runbooks reduce MTTR. Post-mortem process with blameless culture and actionable improvements. On-call rotation designed to prevent burnout.
Automated App Store/Play Store compliance validation. Staged rollouts with feature flags for instant rollback. Emergency hotfix process with <4 hour approval. Version deprecation strategy to manage technical debt.