Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Software engineer with expertise in distributed systems and real-time stream processing. Experienced in building high-throughput, fault-tolerant pipelines, scalable data platforms, and real-time insights systems. Proven track record of building with an observability-first mindset, ensuring robust monitoring and alerting, and designing highly available, resilient services. Passionate about tackling complex challenges, mentoring teams, and driving continuous learning and growth.
Billing Platform. Execution Gateways.
Built a scalable, fault-tolerant events and logs pipeline handling 700K+ events/sec and 1M+ logs/sec. * Introduced Apache Kafka as the transport layer, enabling adoption across multiple teams and clusters. * Designed and implemented a highly available, lightweight Go-based proxy/router (40K+ instances) to relay events and logs ensuring reliability and visibility. * Migrated large-scale events pipelines from in-house systems to Kafka, reducing event delivery latency from 13s to 4s. * Enhanced log pipeline stability by replacing Rsyslog relays with Kafka + Logstash. * Defined and implemented SLIs/SLOs, with robust monitoring and alerting. * Contributed to team growth through mentorship, onboarding, interviews, and trainings.
Worked on building the Geo Platform for the Supply Chain arm, enabling real-time, fault-tolerant event processing and insights. * Developed batch and streaming pipelines using Apache Spark, Cassandra, Kafka, and Zookeeper, delivering key insights at scale. * Built application for Hub managers to track and visualise their fleet. * Contributed to address understanding and geocoding algorithms leveraging OpenStreetMaps and the location data ingested. * Built the Insights Platform for real-time events (e.g., shipment state changes, SLA breaches) using Kafka, Spark, Redis, Elasticsearch, and Kibana.
Developed and enhanced the Customer Service Center Application on the ATG framework with end-to-end ownership of multiple projects. * Led key initiatives including ATG upgrade, REST integrations, unauthorized activity automation. * Collaborated with customer service agents in Cape Town, gathering feedback and integrating enhancements into the application.
Contributed to alpha testing of Cisco GSS (Global Site Selector) to improve DNS responsiveness and ensure data center availability, including features like NS/SOA and Keepalives. Automated testing workflows using Expect scripts.