Software Engineer · Beaumont, TX

I build backends that stay up under load.

4+ years engineering scalable, distributed systems in Python and Java — FastAPI, Spring Boot, Kafka event pipelines, and cloud-native deployments on GCP and Oracle Cloud. Currently shipping creator-facing microservices at YouTube.

  • 0K daily requests served
  • 0% uptime sustained
  • 0% faster release cycles

Experience

Systems I've shipped

Two production environments, both measured in hundreds of thousands of daily requests.

YouTube Software Engineer Mar 2025 — Present · TX Current

Scalable Python microservices on FastAPI, AsyncIO and gRPC inside an event-driven architecture — sustaining 850K daily requests at 99.9% uptime while cutting response latency 27%.

  • Integrated ML and generative-AI endpoints for content recommendation, moderation and metadata summarization into backend services over REST, streamlining inference handling across creator-facing apps.
  • Built caching and persistence layers with Redis, PostgreSQL and Cloud Storage for high-volume retrieval APIs — 33% less database load, 19% lower average query latency.
  • Automated cloud-native delivery on GCP with Docker, Kubernetes and GitHub Actions, shortening release cycles 44% and hardening rollbacks.
  • Rolled out distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry and Grafana Tempo, reducing mean time to diagnosis 36% during peak traffic.
  • Hardened REST and LLM inference endpoints through PyTest suites, profiling and code review — 22% code-quality lift.
FastAPIAsyncIOgRPCRedisPostgreSQLGKEOpenTelemetry
Oracle Software Engineer Jan 2020 — Nov 2023 · India

Modernized enterprise Java and Spring Boot services out of a legacy monolith into distributed, event-driven components — secure REST APIs processing 720K daily transactions, 31% faster.

  • Wired scikit-learn fraud-detection models into Kafka-driven Python workflows, using feature engineering to cut false positives 24%.
  • Tuned Redis caching alongside Oracle Database indexing and query optimization for high-traffic transaction endpoints — 26% lower latency, higher peak throughput.
  • Automated OKE environments with Docker, Terraform and Jenkins pipelines: 28% better infrastructure utilization, 39% less release prep.
  • Centralized security logging and audit trails in ELK and Splunk, flagging anomalous access and shortening investigations 37%.
  • Raised API security standards with Spring Security and OAuth2 while practicing TDD with JUnit and Maven — 27% productivity gain.
Spring BootSpring CloudKafkaOracle DBTerraformOAuth2ELK

Technical stack

What I reach for

Languages

Python · Java · SQL · Scala

Backend & APIs

FastAPI · Spring Boot · Spring Cloud · Hibernate · AsyncIO · gRPC · REST · Microservices · API Gateway

Distributed & messaging

Apache Kafka · event-driven architecture · load balancing · rate limiting

AI / ML

LLM integration · generative AI · scikit-learn · feature engineering · model inference

Data & caching

PostgreSQL · Oracle Database · Redis · query optimization & tuning

Cloud

GCP (GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage) · Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OKE)

DevOps & CI/CD

Docker · Kubernetes · Terraform · GitHub Actions · Jenkins · Git · Maven

Observability

OpenTelemetry · Grafana & Tempo · Prometheus · ELK · Splunk · distributed tracing

Security

Spring Security · OAuth2 · JWT · API security

Testing & quality

PyTest · JUnit · TDD · performance profiling · code review

Measured impact

Numbers from production

0% lower response latency
0% less database load
0% faster diagnosis
0K daily transactions
0% fewer false positives
0% less release prep
0% faster investigations
0% better infra utilization

About

Backend engineering, end to end

I like the unglamorous parts of software: the queue that never drops a message, the cache that absorbs a traffic spike, the trace that tells you exactly which hop went slow. Most of my work sits between an API contract and a cluster — designing services, tuning the data path, and making deployments boring.

Lately that means putting ML and LLM inference behind clean, observable endpoints so product teams can ship AI features without inheriting the operational risk.

Education

M.S. Management Information Systems
Lamar University, Beaumont, TX · Jan 2024 — May 2025

Let's talk systems.

Open to backend and platform engineering conversations.