Highly accomplished Senior Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience in backend development of which 5 years specializing in Go. Also, a definite cat lover.
Migrating Ruby on Rails services to Go so as to improve the performance, reliability, development velocity and maintainability of the platform.
Migrating internal REST endpoints to gRPC so as to improve the performance and reliability of intraservice communication.
Worked on and optimised the activityFeed, notifications, templates and searchIndexer engines to perform more reliably under heavy load.
Developed the metrics engine using Mixpanel for product analytics.
Devised and implemented a testing strategy for the various engines (i.e activityFeed, notifications , templates, searchIndexer and metrics) to ensure their resiliency.
Worked on and optimised the internal event system to scale from less than a hundred to thousands of clients on a single instance of the platform.
Devised and implemented a service-wide type-safe validation framework to ensure data validity and consistency.
Worked on the core Go microservices powering the Ringier Event Bus serving millions of events monthly across more than a dozen of companies and teams.
Developed an Infrastructure as Code Go microservice codenamed Atlas to fully automate provisioning of the Ringier Event Bus on AWS with automated integration testing.Infrastructure cost reduced by 35% and new environment provisioning time reduced by 30%.
Developed a Go CLI application codenamed Timestream Travel as an AWS Timestream backup solution for webvitalize.io.
Developed and showcased a payment Go microservice using Web3 technologies during a play-week.
Developed and showcased a MVP Event Bus using Temporal at its core during a play-week.
Organised company-wide Go workshops to onboard and train new Gophers.
Harvit harvests data from different sources (e.g websites, APIs), converts and transforms it.
hap, like in what’s happening, is a generic event system aimed towards simplicity and performance.
A flow-based programming thingy in Go. Can generate valid Go code from a node-based graph. Highly experimental.