Staff Engineer — Systems, AI & Blockchain | Microsoft MVP

Founded and built an AI platform converting expert knowledge into scalable training simulations. Owned technical strategy and delivery on a polyglot stack supporting 500+ users. Rewrote real-time layers, benchmarked TTS/STT services, integrated multiple LLM providers, built adaptive simulation engines, shipped production RAG pipelines, designed decentralized marketplaces using zero-knowledge proofs, instrumented LLM evaluation and observability, built Chrome extension for real-time Google Meet capture, hired and led a distributed team.

Restructured 8-engineer team, stabilized release cadence, built image embeddings service improving product matching and client revenue by 40%, reduced production bugs by 70%, optimized LLM usage and cloud infrastructure cutting spend by 45%, designed reusable base architecture, migrated real-time LLM service to Azure AI Foundry, introduced Spec-Driven Development and AI-driven workflows, led full-stack migration to .NET, shipped AI-powered features, established LLM evaluation and monitoring practices, ran public-speaking workshops.

Designed and operated MEV searcher pipelines in Rust and Python/Cython across EVM and Solana, processing 10K+ opportunities/day with $50M+ daily flow and sub-10 ms execution. Migrated system to Rust increasing TPS 20x. Built custom transaction delivery infrastructure improving inclusion probability by 35%. Integrated Flashbots stack and Jito ecosystem. Built Node.js/TypeScript services interacting with DeFi protocols. Designed strategy logic including liquidation detection and multi-hop arbitrage. Reverse-engineered Geth and Reth, contributed to REVM community. Conducted technical due diligence on projects. Implemented low-latency observability. Conducted research on zero-knowledge technologies and L2 ecosystems. Owned production reliability and incident response. Helped build and grow blockchain team.

Owned architecture of high-traffic online casino platform handling real-time money operations and regulatory reporting. Improved team productivity by 40%. Designed event-driven microservices in .NET handling game state, wallet operations, and reporting. Migrated relational databases to MongoDB. Implemented distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry, Application Insights, Datadog. Introduced Kubernetes and automated deploy pipelines. Applied Domain-Driven Design, CQRS, and design patterns. Led hiring and created technical entry exams. Delivered internal training on architecture and testing.

First employee; led architecture decisions across enterprise product lines. Built microservices backends in Node.js/TypeScript and .NET using Domain-Driven Design and Clean Architecture. Designed Angular and React frontends with reusable components. Built distributed system over geospatial data for UK client. Delivered technical training and conference talks. Collaborated with clients on requirements and adoption.

Designed and built full-stack features in Angular and .NET for internal hotel management platforms. Led migration from AngularJS to Angular 2 improving maintainability and performance. Redesigned data model toward event-oriented architecture. Defined backend and frontend development processes.

Built .NET web applications, internal tooling, and mobile components. Designed early mobile application components collaborating with senior developers. Integrated external services and APIs, implemented unit tests.