Staff Engineer. 15+ years building systems that run in production.
I take ambiguous problems, figure out the architecture, write the code, ship it, and iterate until it works at scale. My home is the bottom of the stack - Linux kernel, eBPF, networking internals, and I build up from there through distributed backends, high-throughput services, and the infrastructure that runs them.
- Low-level systems — eBPF networking tools, custom L4 proxies (sk_lookup), SR-IOV/DPDK data paths, kernel-level debugging and performance work
- Networking — SDN, netfilter, Open vSwitch, TLS, socket-level connection steering
- Distributed systems & backends — services that scale, consensus-critical backend services, decentralized messaging networks, cross-chain indexers
- Infrastructure — Kubernetes/OpenShift, Terraform, AWS, Cloudflare edge, CI/CD pipelines that don't break at 3am
Go · Rust · C — Linux kernel, eBPF, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, PostgreSQL · also Solidity/Foundry
- Staff Engineer — XMTP Labs · decentralized backend, AWS/Kubernetes/Terraform infrastructure, a globally distributed Cloudflare edge platform, protocol architecture
- Protocol Engineer — ZetaChain · Cosmos SDK L1 distributed-systems and protocol engineering
- Senior Engineer — Chainlink Labs · core infrastructure and toolchains for a high-availability oracle network, cross-chain tooling
- Principal Engineer — Red Hat · upstream Kubernetes/OpenShift core, eBPF networking, Linux kernel internals, cluster scale & performance work
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