• 12+ years in Software Engineering.• Spent the majority of my career working with distributed backend systems and service-oriented architecture.• Specialization in architecting systems on Amazon Web Services (AWS).• Experience building, maintaining and operating high-volume APIs and highly available services, including monitoring, alarming and continuous deployment.• Advocate of best practices such as good documentation, continuous integration testing, infrastructure as code. • Most proficient in Go, TypeScript, Java and Python.• Experience using and owning SQL databases (MySQL, Postgres), as well as NoSQL databases (AWS DynamoDB).• Highly autonomous but also a strong team member with a high degree of ownership and the ability to plan and drive projects to completion.