I am into distributed systems, algorithms, optimization techniques and other ways to handle data. Code is craft, and I like to work on challenging problems and get results. I am very comfortable with C++ and Python.

Experience

Stellar Development FoundationStaff Software Engineer

2025 — Now

Stellar Development FoundationSenior Software Engineer, Core

2022 — 2025

San Francisco, California, United States

Driving scalability and security initiatives for the underlying peer-to-peer overlay infrastructure of the Stellar network.

Stellar Development FoundationSoftware Engineer, Core

2018 — 2022

San Francisco, California

Contributor to stellar-core (https://github.com/stellar/stellar-core), a C++ implementation of a distributed ledger. Stellar-core achieves consensus via the Stellar Consensus Protocol (a Federated Byzantine Agreement system).

PandoraSoftware Engineer

2016 — 2018

Oakland, California

Built pieces of music ingestion backend pipeline as part of Data Science and Music Engineering Team.

Core contributor to the music matching system, that matched newly incoming content with Pandora's catalog.

Core contributor to the grouping system, which is used to cluster similar musical entities (tracks, albums, artists, labels) through several machine learning models.

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Experience

Education

Computer Science