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🧑‍💻 About Me

"I write code that quietly powers things at scale — and occasionally, things that people actually notice."

I'm a Senior Backend Engineer @ Walmart Global Tech, building the AdTech infrastructure that decides which ads follow you around the internet. You're welcome. Or sorry. Depends on how you feel about that.

Before Walmart, I spent years doing the kind of backend work that absolutely holds everything together:

  • 🏦 Engineered REST APIs that move millions in GMV annually — because someone has to make sure the orders actually go through
  • 🚀 Launched a fintech MVP in 10 weeks — yes, 10 weeks, yes it worked
  • 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Built a hiring platform that hit 3,000+ sign-ups in 4 weeks before we'd even properly marketed it
  • 🔍 Scraped 200,000+ rows of data and wired up an Elasticsearch engine that could actually find things

I like building things that start as a whiteboard sketch and end up with real users complaining about them — which is how you know they're using it.


🛠️ Tech Stack

Languages

Java Kotlin Scala Python

Frameworks & Backends

Spring GraphQL REST APIs

Data & Search

PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB Redis Elasticsearch

Infrastructure & Cloud

AWS Docker Kubernetes

CI/CD & Tooling

GitHub Actions Jenkins


🚀 Currently Working On

📍 Walmart Global Tech  •  Software Engineer
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Building AdTech infrastructure at scale                     │
│  → The system that decides which ads follow you online       │
│  → Distributed systems, real-time pipelines, high throughput │
│  → If the ad loads fast, that's on me                        │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

☕ Fun Facts

  • Powered by coffee — not a metaphor, a strict operational dependency
  • 💸 Always exploring new income streams — side hustles, investments, you name it
  • 🧠 Whiteboard-to-prod is my favourite arc in any project
  • 🐛 My code has fewer bugs once I finish my second cup

📊 GitHub Stats


🐍 Contributions

github contribution grid snake animation

🤝 Let's Connect


💼 Open to senior/staff backend or AdTech engineering roles — or just a good argument about system design.


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