Senior Backend Software Engineer

Led a redesign of a production tracing mechanism after identifying critical gaps in the initial approach, aligning engineering stakeholders and unblocking the path to production. Implemented the Scala tracing solution with transparent data-pipeline transformations that provided analytics teams direct access to more than 400,000 records.

Resolved critical production data escalations by developing reproducible Python and Pandas analysis tools, ensuring accurate client reporting. Built a foundational Python testing framework for a 10-person engineering team, documented backend APIs in Swagger, and provided early builds to frontend engineers to accelerate integration.

Designed and delivered a Java/Micronaut RESTful tenant-registry microservice for Salesforce client integration discovery. The service reached production with more than 90% test coverage and OpenTelemetry-based observability. Mentored two engineers through one-on-ones, code reviews, and debugging support.

Provided on-call support for production data systems, identifying a race condition between two pipelines that produced incorrect client-facing data. Delivered a hot fix, regenerated correct data, and supplied reproduction steps for a permanent owner-team resolution.

Led a phased Kubernetes migration of self-hosted Redis and Kafka to Azure-managed services across more than 65 environments. Used Helm chart feature toggles to enable incremental, low-risk deployment and coordinated infrastructure planning and cut-over activities with DevOps and downstream teams.

Introduced container image scanning across more than 14 GitLab projects using a pipeline execution policy, providing security vulnerability visibility without requiring changes to individual project CI/CD pipelines.

Debugged intermittent failures in a multithreaded C++ distributed system, tracing lock-free concurrency errors through optimized x86 assembly analysis. Resolved deadlocks involving C++ product code and Python's interpreter lock, improving product stability and uptime.

Diagnosed memory leaks and segmentation faults using gdb and core dump analysis, preventing crashes and intermittent failures. Designed a C++ shared-memory layer for process state sharing and built a thread-safety wrapper for legacy environment-variable calls using LD_PRELOAD.

Improved test execution parallelism by creating an Automake test driver that ran the same tests concurrently across configurations. Increased product coverage through C++ and Python unit tests.

Developed a regular expression engine in C and validated its behavior against GNU grep through automated Perl and Bash test scripts. Used Valgrind, gdb, and gprof to identify defects and prioritize performance optimization based on measured hotspots.

Diagnosed and fixed a use-after-free defect in GNU Make's MAKEFILES environment-variable handling that could crash builds; the fix was merged upstream. Also fixed a portability issue in GNU Make's Perl test harness by resolving module paths relative to the script location.

Migrated the Coverity static-analysis build workflow from Electric-Commander and emake to Jenkins and gmake. Modularized build steps to provide more granular control over the analysis process.

Researched, documented, and implemented recovery procedures for an embedded Coverity database.