San Francisco Bay Area
Senior Engineering Manager with 16+ years leading backend platform and distributed systems teams at scale. Proven track record owning technical strategy, roadmap, and full software lifecycle — delivering high-availability platforms. Skilled at hiring and growing engineering organizations, mentoring senior engineers, and driving cross-functional execution.
• Owned the Document Processing Platform end-to-end for a 12-engineer team (backend, API, infrastructure); defined charter, roadmap, SLAs, architecture standards, and quarterly technical direction; mentored 3 senior engineers into tech lead roles. • Architected a fault-tolerant, event-driven document processing platform (Kafka, Azure Service Bus) processing 10M+ documents/month; reduced end-to-end latency by 60% through async pipeline redesign and horizontal scaling. • Improved platform scalability and developer experience by building a self-service API Gateway onboarding layer; reduced integration time by 40% and scaled platform from 3 to 15 tenants in 18 months without proportional headcount growth. • Built operational excellence mechanisms (SLOs, on-call, runbooks, incident playbooks) achieving 99.9% uptime and reducing unplanned downtime by 40%; designed observability stack (distributed tracing, logging, alerting) cutting MTTD by 50% and MTTR by 35%.
• Led a 14-engineer backend platform team responsible for architecture, execution, reliability, and lifecycle ownership of a distributed transaction management system processing $2B+ annually (microservices, PostgreSQL, Redis, Azure); scaled team from 8 to 14 in 12 months through structured hiring and performance management. • Reduced report generation latency by 65% by re-architecting the document generation pipeline with async processing and caching; delivered 30% YoY infrastructure cost savings (~$400K annually) through right-sizing and Redis caching strategy.
• Designed and delivered a high-throughput document processing service (Python, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Azure Blob Storage) handling 500K+ documents/month, cutting processing costs by 25% through scalable service design and query optimization. • Led 6-engineer team to architect and deliver RESTful microservices for workflow automation and document management; streamlined deployment and release processes, reducing deployment cycle from 3 weeks to 3 days through automated testing and standardized build practices.
• Led Agile transformation for a 10-person team, improving on-time delivery rate by 30%; built and shipped backend services and front-end applications in JavaScript and C# supporting 20+ production deployments across enterprise environments.