$ cat about.md

# About

## whoami

Software engineer focused on backend and distributed systems. I care about the unglamorous parts — the audit pipelines, the guardrails, the migrations that keep production from melting at 3 AM. I'm currently at Meta on the Reality Labs wearables team.

Spent two years at Amazon Web Services on the EC2 team, where I expanded the Edge compute network to dozens of global locations and owned a service processing 60K+ TPS. Built distributed auditing systems for live network configuration, migrated a relational store to DynamoDB, and shipped guardrails that prevented customer-facing billing errors. Before that, on Alexa Shopping, I launched international Prime sign-ups and led security reviews for voice-commerce services.

I'm drawn to the hard problems behind systems that have to keep running — distributed state, ultra-low-latency compute at the edge, the failure modes that only show up at scale. Whether it's designing a distributed audit for live networking data or owning a high-TPS service through an outage, I care about getting the details right.

## engineering_philosophy

const philosophy = {
  correctness:  "First, make it work. Then make it right.",
  performance:  "Measure before you optimize.",
  simplicity:   "The best code is the code you don't write.",
  systems:      "Understand the full stack, from transistors to TCP.",
  ownership:    "If you built it, you own it. In production.",
}

## tech_stack

$ cat /proc/skills | sort -k2 -rn

[Languages]

Java █████
Python █████
C/C++ █████
TypeScript ████░
JavaScript ████░
SQL ████░

[Systems & Architecture]

Distributed Systems █████
Backend / APIs █████
Real-time Systems ████░
Embedded Systems ████░
On-device ML / DSP ███░░

[Cloud & Tools]

AWS █████
DynamoDB / SQL ████░
Docker / K8s ████░
Linux █████
Git █████
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