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Povio Inc Current

Software studio crafting beautiful products for startup and enterprise customers worldwide.

TypeScript NestJS GraphQL Architecture AI PostgreSQL

Project Lead · Fitness App

Jan 2024 — Present

Lead engineer on a long-running NestJS / PostgreSQL / GraphQL platform — migrated from Express to NestJS and schema-first to code-first GraphQL with zero downtime and no breaking changes
Split backend into separate API and worker services to prevent peak load crashes — brought p95 latency from over 3s to under 300ms, critical endpoints under 150ms
Cut the project’s AWS bill by 20% through targeted SQL query optimization and indexing work

Senior Software Engineer · Media Platform

Feb 2022 — Dec 2023

Maintained and improved the ad tech stack on a high-traffic media platform serving millions of daily views
Designed data pipelines for analytics and ad viewability

Lead Backend Engineer · IoT Device

Oct 2022 — Feb 2023

Designed and built the backend architecture for an IoT device, including granular access control, adaptive scheduling, and reactive two-way communication

Audience research platform powering global brands.

TypeScript Angular RxJS GCP

Senior Frontend Engineer

Aug 2021 — Jul 2022

Maintained and improved multiple frontend applications powering a large-scale surveying platform
Cut bundle sizes by over 50% on several apps through dependency auditing and build-pipeline work
Built a speech-to-text app aimed at improving platform accessibility

Rental market place and ecommerce platform.

TypeScript Angular NestJS Go Java GCP PostgreSQL Kubernetes

Tech Lead

Jul 2020 — Jul 2021

Reported directly to the CTO — mentored new team members and authored the team’s first documentation standards
Built internal tooling that automated common engineering workflows
Led the modernization initiative, migrating large parts of the legacy codebase to a more maintainable stack

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Nov 2019 — Jun 2020

Worked on a large polyglot microservices platform across multiple languages and frameworks
Wrote the logic of the ElasticSearch indexing service and contributed heavily to its evolution
Maintained the Angular frontend and orchestrated service deployment on Kubernetes

Full-Stack Engineer

Mar 2018 — Oct 2019

Digital agency building custom products.

TypeScript React Node.js Python Go

Full-Stack Engineer

Feb 2016 — Oct 2019

Led development of a two-way synchronization platform between client backends and multiple third-party APIs, designed for easy vendor integration
Developed a highly customizable note-tracking and sharing solution for enterprise clients
Built and maintained a large taxi and shuttle platform
Load-tested and scaled a WebSocket-based application to handle large numbers of concurrent users

IT Services group

JavaScript Java

Engineering Intern

Jul 2015 — Dec 2015

Student Instructor

Jun 2015 — Jun 2015

Mentored a team of students during the EDiT Summer School, building a LEGO warehouse robot with AngularJS and JavaEE