Work

Experience

Principal Engineer @ Kaluza

Mar 2023 - Present

Scope: Multi-squad IC role across Kaluza and client. Distributed systems, Kafka architecture, domain design, platform migrations.

Key Work:

• Orchestrated the decoupling of a monolithic legacy estate across 10+ domains.
• Created Kafka governance: Topic ownership, ACL strategy, mirroring/replication patterns, incident triage.
• Eliminated systemic instability by diagnosing and patching critical race conditions in distributed state models.
• Cross-org alignment: Between Kaluza and clients on events, models, flows, and migration sequencing.

Notable:

• Acted as the only Staff/Principal-level IC across the entire client programme for 12+ months.

Staff Engineer @ Hopin

February 2021 to July 2022

Scope: Platform Reliability, Observability, and Cost Optimization.

Key Work:

• Reduced cloud infrastructure spend by 30% through architectural rightsizing and resource governance.
• Architected observability systems (Metrics, Logging, Tracing) to stabilize platform reliability during hyper-growth.
• Co-inventor of adaptive streaming infrastructure for virtual events (Patent US-11522934-B1).

Senior Developer (Payments) @ Tesco

October 2019 to February 2021 · Contract

Scope: Payment Gateway Design & Implementation.

Key Work:

• Focused on the resilience and security of the new payment gateway infrastructure.
• Migrated legacy payment flows to modern, containerized microservices.

Technical Lead @ Palace Skateboards

May 2016 to October 2019 · Contract

Scope: E-commerce Platform Architecture.

Key Work:

• Engineered zero-downtime architecture for high-velocity ‘drop’ events.
• Built backend systems capable of handling instant inventory depletion under extreme concurrency.

Previous Work

Education

MSc Equivalent - Architecture and Distributed Systems
Instituto Superior Técnico (2000 - 2006)