Engineering & Product Leader
Cloud Infrastructure · Distributed Systems · Real-Time Systems
I design and scale distributed systems powering real-time data, developer platforms, and cloud-native infrastructure.
About
With 22+ years across enterprise, startup, and scale-up environments, I've led engineering teams building the distributed systems and cloud platforms that modern software depends on.
My work spans streaming data infrastructure at Confluent (the world's data streaming platform, co-creators of Apache Kafka), enterprise procurement SaaS at SAP Ariba (the world's largest B2B commerce network), and founding-level infra at DeltaStream (real-time context engine for AI agents) — always centered on systems that are resilient, observable, and built to last.
Full story →22+
Years of experience
4+
Infra-heavy companies
Core focus
Distributed systems · Kafka · Flink · BYOC SaaS · Kubernetes · AI-native infra
Expertise
Designing multi-region, fault-tolerant cloud platforms. BYOC architectures and multi-tenant SaaS systems at enterprise scale.
Building systems that remain consistent, available, and partition-tolerant under real-world load — at scale.
Deep expertise in Kafka, Flink, and streaming infrastructure — from pipeline design to production operations.
Designing bring-your-own-cloud systems where enterprise data never leaves customer boundaries — without sacrificing developer experience.
Kubernetes-native platform engineering, GitOps workflows, and automation systems that compress developer toil to near-zero.
Building the infra layer for AI workloads — vector stores, feature pipelines, model serving infrastructure, and AI-native observability.
Impact
Built scalable streaming and data platforms adopted across large, distributed engineering organizations.
From Kafka cluster design to Flink job orchestration — end-to-end ownership of systems that process millions of events per second reliably.
Designed multi-tenant cloud architectures powering enterprise SaaS systems across global customer bases.
Deep experience in isolation strategies, compliance-aware data planes, and operational simplicity at scale.
Led infra systems supporting high-scale distributed workloads in production environments with demanding SLAs.
Observability, chaos engineering, capacity planning, and incident leadership baked into every system I've owned.
Built automation systems that measurably improved developer velocity and system reliability across engineering orgs.
Internal platforms, golden paths, and self-service tooling that let engineers ship fearlessly.
Philosophy
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"Infrastructure should disappear behind developer experience."
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"Real-time systems define modern software architecture."
03
"Scalability is a systems design problem, not a scaling problem."
04
"Platform engineering is leverage, not support work."
Let's work together
I work with founders building infrastructure-heavy and AI-native systems. Advisory, collaboration, or early-stage roles.