Software Engineer with a track record of owning and shipping complex projects from 0 to 1, across startups and larger product-driven companies. Comfortable across the stack, with a bias for impact over process. Open-source contributor and enthusiastic user of AI tools to ship faster.
Designed and built the Risk Controls platform from scratch, which became the golden path for freezing and unfreezing seller funds across Square; closed critical regulatory gaps while reducing churn by improving seller and agent experience; migrated >100 codepaths to the platform using Claude Code, cutting months from pre-AI estimates
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Drove platform reliability and performance: reduced main service p99 latency from 500ms to 10ms, and halved infra costs from $12k to $6k/year via single-region migration
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Became domain expert across Risk Controls, Square Card fraud evaluations (3DS and authorisations), and more; ramped up multiple team members through knowledge bases, runbooks, and regular knowledge-share sessions
Delivered plan for launching Stripe into a new market (identified market requirements, mapped to solutions, split into projects, created timelines & execution plan, onboarded other engineers, derisked and led initial execution)
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Was the first engineer of novel team targeting self-serve UX in specific markets: identified issues in onboarding process, designed solutions and executed, leading to 80% drop in user confusion (selecting "Not sure" in UI)
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Company building: mentor of 2 teammates, during 1 quarter I held more interviews than 97% of engineers at Stripe
Worked on a web application used to create and display different visualisations of processes and decide how fit they are for automation
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Led projects involving multiple engineers, notably a complete restructuring of the UI/UX for the main process visualisation tool, which led to the company's first successful client engagements
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Helped scale the web application to handle very large amounts of data (e.g by segmenting payloads of HTTP requests, leveraging browser cache etc.)
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Brought on multiple practices for reducing bugs and dev time (e.g unit and e2e testing, using typed languages, following well-known design patterns etc.)
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Mentored multiple colleagues to the extent that the team working on the web application grew from 2 to 8 people
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Made open-source contributions to Vis Network (graph visualisation library)
Worked on an award-winning business travel platform, specifically on a web application used by tens of thousands of users to mass book hotels/trains/airplanes
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Devised an algorithm that masks card details from logs, which helped platform achieve PCI compliance
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Was promoted to regular employee after 1.5 months as an intern (worked during university)
