Senior backend engineer building the payment and messaging infrastructure behind platforms that move real money.
Node.js, microservices, distributed systems, cybersource, pci-dss, kubernetes. Strong background in payment gateways (12 +),real-time systems,AWS. I've built systems that process $1.2M+ monthly with 99.95% uptime
I'm a quick learner who loves solving problems and picking up new skills - even rocket science too if needed and always ready to learn. The through-line hasn't changed: understand the domain deeply enough that the right architecture becomes obvious.
Most of my work now is microservices, message queues and the unglamorous reliability engineering — retries, idempotency, reconciliation, observability — that decides whether a system survives its first busy Friday night.
Outside of work I write about backend design, and I'll happily learn anything that gets a system shipped.
Order, payment and delivery logic lived in one service. A gateway timeout could stall the whole order pipeline, and every new payment provider meant touching checkout code.
Open to senior backend roles and focused freelance engagements around payments, messaging and distributed systems. I usually reply within a day.