Principal Backend Engineer

Reliable backend systems for high-stakes products.

I build and operate resilient services, cloud infrastructure, and data workflows where correctness, scale, and calm execution matter.

100M records migrated

DynamoDB to Aurora PostgreSQL with zero downtime and no data loss.

$2B+ revenue service

Mission-critical Java microservice maintained and modernized.

$30M revenue protected

Direct outage response that prevented major business loss.

90%+ incident reduction

Device policy stability work that sharply reduced customer issues.

Selected Impact

Case-study shaped work, not just job titles.

Stable Kernel

Zero-downtime data migration

Architected, wrote, and deployed a migration of roughly 100 million DynamoDB entries into Aurora PostgreSQL while protecting continuity for active services.

Principal engineering

Mission-critical service ownership

Maintained and evolved a Java microservice tied to more than $2 billion in revenue, while designing a Go rewrite for the next version of the platform.

Incident response

Operational resilience under pressure

Built Lambda-based tools for data availability, order reconciliation, and service redundancy, including outage work that prevented roughly $30 million in lost revenue.

Technical Range

Systems, services, and infrastructure.

My strongest work sits at the intersection of backend engineering, cloud operations, data integrity, and practical team leadership.

Backend systems AWS infrastructure Data migrations Service resiliency Go and Java Technical leadership