Distributed systems & APIs
Backend services scaled past 100K transactions per second, and a WHOIS API serving millions of daily requests with Redis caching. Set API governance standards across teams.
100K+ tx/s · <100msStaff Software Engineer at Proofpoint
Distributed systems, security infrastructure, and agentic AI.
I build large-scale security platforms and high-throughput backends and I'm going deep on agentic AI — systems that take real actions through tools, not just chat. The twin on the right answers only from what I've actually shared and it says so plainly when it doesn't know.
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Expertise
Where I go deep, and what I build with.
Security infrastructure
Tech lead for internet-scale threat detection and a domain takedown platform that automates remediation for enterprise customers.
Thousands of enterprise customersData pipelines
Real-time, event-driven ingestion of domain, DNS, email and Certificate Transparency signals into a PostgreSQL store that powers company-wide detection.
1B+ records · 10TB+ / dayCloud architecture & cost
Re-architected a detection pipeline onto ECS Fargate with CLIP image embeddings, cutting latency from days to hours while collapsing the AWS bill.
$3.6M → <$500K / yrTechnical leadership
Founded and led an org-wide API working group, ran cross-team architecture reviews, and mentored engineers across teams.
4–6 engineering teamsAgentic AI
Currently going deep on AI that acts through tools, where distributed-systems thinking meets AI.
Focus areaDaily drivers
- Go
- Node.js
- JavaScript
- AWS
- PostgreSQL
- Redshift
- Kubernetes
- Docker
Work
Over 12 years across backend, security infrastructure, and platform engineering.
- Architected the backend for a domain takedown platform automating threat remediation for thousands of enterprise customers.
- Re-architected lookalike / brand-impersonation detection onto ECS with CLIP image embeddings — detection from days to hours, annual AWS spend $3.6M → under $500K.
- Built a real-time domain intelligence pipeline into a 1B+ record PostgreSQL store, and a WHOIS API serving millions of daily requests at sub-100ms latency.
- Founded and led an org-wide API working group; scaled backend services beyond 100K transactions/second.
- Built secure, real-time license-validation APIs enforcing global subscription rules.
- Led migration from a monolith to AWS serverless; ran a large-scale data migration with zero downtime.
- Delivered mission-critical systems for government and military clients, prioritizing security and reliability (C#, WPF, TypeScript, Angular).
- Built B2B web applications and reusable, responsive UI components (ASP.NET, C#, JavaScript).
- Master of Science, Electrical Engineering. Graduate Assistant at the UMKC Bloch School.
About
I'm a Staff Software Engineer based in Erie, Colorado, with over 12 years in software engineering. Most of my career has been distributed backend and security infrastructure — systems that process huge volumes of data reliably and cheaply. I'd rather solve a problem simply than over-engineer it. Right now I'm focused on agentic AI engineering: building AI that acts through tools, where distributed-systems thinking meets AI.
- Location
- Erie, Colorado
- Languages
- English, Telugu
- Core stack
- Go, Node.js, AWS, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Kubernetes
- Learning
- Agentic AI engineering
- Outside work
- Cricket in summer, skiing in winter, dad to two little girls
Writing
Notes on distributed systems, security infrastructure, and agentic AI — in the works.
Get in touch
For anything related to distributed systems and agentic AI, or just to talk shop.