Senior Software Engineer → Technical Lead

Online sportsbook and casino platform. Worked across multiple product teams — sportsbook, casino, marketing, user retention, and responsible gambling — before moving to the payments & cashier team for the final year, progressing to Technical Lead.

As Technical Lead: served as the main technical point of contact for all payments engineering, led architecture for systems handling thousands of daily transactions, managed team backlog in collaboration with stakeholders, and conducted code reviews across the team.

As Senior Software Engineer, Payments: architected a PaymentIQ integration routing transactions across multiple providers through a unified cashier layer, built direct payment provider integrations, developed custom payment routing rules, implemented fraud prevention systems, built admin tooling and dashboards, and led the frontend implementation of the cashier in Vue.js (Nuxt).

Stack: PHP (Laravel), Node.js, Hono, Vue.js (Nuxt 2/3), MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Cloudflare Workers

Co-Founder & Software Development Team Lead

Co-founded an automated bookkeeping SaaS platform leveraging AI-powered receipt classification and data extraction. Led technical development from concept to production, making all critical architectural decisions. Built and managed a cross-functional team of developers and QA specialists using Agile methodologies. Integrated multiple accounting software APIs (QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, Acomba) for seamless data synchronization.

Stack: PHP Laravel, React, React Native, jQuery, MySQL

Chief Technology Officer

Led all technical strategy and development for a technology-enhanced security services company. Architected and implemented internal operations management systems. Established development workflows, quality standards, and coordinated between technical and business teams.

Stack: PHP Laravel, React, React Native, MySQL

Lead Web Developer

Progressed to lead position, managing tasks and coaching team developers. Led development of the company's online contact center platform integrating multiple third-party services. Built scalable solutions for high-traffic travel booking systems. Conducted code reviews and mentored junior developers.

Stack: PHP Laravel, React, MySQL

Distributed Payment Processing Platform

A production-grade distributed platform built from zero Go experience, with full ownership of all architectural decisions. Containerized and deployed to production:

Distributed saga pattern, idempotency at every layer, optimistic locking, circuit breaker, backpressure queue middleware, real-time SSE via Redis Pub/Sub, webhook deduplication, daily Stripe reconciliation, distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus metrics, and Grafana dashboards. AI insights panel powered by Claude (claude-sonnet-5) aggregates payment data into narrative analysis. Load tested with k6 — 20 concurrent users, p99 78ms, 0% error rate across 3,388 orders. CI/CD via GitHub Actions.

Stack: Go 1.26, PostgreSQL, Redis, Stripe, React 19, Docker, Nginx, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, GitHub Actions

Social Event Discovery App

A social event discovery and planning app built and shipped independently to both the iOS and Android App Stores.

AI-powered event discovery using Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity APIs. Real-time features via Centrifugo. Integrated Ticketmaster Discovery API, Google Places, Mapbox, and Twilio. Deployed on AWS (Lightsail, RDS, S3) with GitHub Actions CI/CD. Observability via Sentry and PostHog. Built entirely using Claude Code as the primary development tool.

Stack: React, React Native, TypeScript, Expo, Laravel, PostgreSQL, Centrifugo, AWS (Lightsail, RDS, S3), GitHub Actions

Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering

Diploma of College Studies, Information Technology