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Work Experience

• Senior Kotlin Engineer, Pleo

  Jan, 2025 - Present

  Technical lead for high-stakes onboarding and KYC flows, including the flagship 'Embedded Partner' initiative; a new business model enabling us to onboard customers of large-scale corporate partners.

  • Architected the backend flow for the 'Embedded Partner' project, enabling a new business channel and driving seamless integration for enterprise partner clients.

  • Championed a culture of 'Engineering Excellence,' transforming siloed developers into a cohesive team through shared technical design and documentation initiatives that reduced PR latency by ~40%.

  • Scaled team velocity by integrating AI-augmented development into our SDLC: authoring high-fidelity technical specs to orchestrate AI-led implementation, ensuring rapid delivery without compromising code quality.

  • Architected a feature-flagging infrastructure (LaunchDarkly) that empowered the product team to run rapid-fire UX experiments, directly contributing to a 150% increase in onboarding conversion rates.

  • Implemented robust, event-driven pipelines (Kafka, BigQuery) to provide real-time visibility into the onboarding funnel for product stakeholders.

• Software Developer, Yobota/Chetwood (Takeover)

  Jan, 2021 - Jan, 20254 years

  Core engineer focused on resilient microservices and long-term system maintainability in a high-compliance banking environment.

  • Took ownership of legacy system documentation and design, systematically identifying and mitigating 'bus-factor' risks and saving ~10 hours/sprint in support overhead.

  • Designed and built a high-throughput event-driven Email Notification System (60K+ req/day) and a serverless mortgage onboarding flow (10K+ req/day).

  • Pioneered a shift in CI/CD reliability by implementing automated linting (Mypy/Pylint) and parallelizing Jenkins flows, reducing functional test suite runtime by ~180%.

  • Established a 'better-than-I-found-it' culture by mentoring junior engineers and standardizing testing frameworks to reach 100% test coverage.

• Full-Stack Software Developer, QuickRelease

  Jan, 2017 - Jan, 20214 years

  Key contributor to flagship licensed products, focused on performance optimization and scalable data architecture.

  • Resolved critical performance bottlenecks in datasets with 100M+ combinations, reducing analysis time from 24h to 20 minutes and delivering massive value to enterprise clients.

  • Optimized Django ORM and architecture, resulting in a 50% reduction in load times and a 4x improvement in memory efficiency.

  • Led sprint retrospectives and team planning, fostering an environment where cross-functional collaboration solved the hardest integration challenges.

• Technical Consultant, CloudTrade Technologies

  Jan, 2016 - Jan, 20171 year

  Developed custom supplier templates and streamlined invoice automation workflows.

  • Implemented proprietary Prolog-based logic to automate complex data extraction, significantly improving processing accuracy.

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