Senior software engineer focused on Go backend services and Kubernetes. My work spans service, API and database design, testing, CI/CD and deployments across multiple regions.

• Go / Golang

  • My primary programming language since 2019, building production microservices, tools and libraries
  • Strong understanding of concurrency and parallelism, including race conditions, synchronization and atomic operations
  • Mentoring developers new to Go
  • Creator of Mock, a testing library requiring work with Go internals: ABI, garbage collection and reflection
  • Working with gin, chi, cobra, viper, pgx/pgxpool, zerolog and slog

• Kubernetes

  • Production experience since 2021 with EKS, OpenShift, Istio and custom operators
  • Working with multiple clusters across multiple regions
  • Managing deployments with Helm, Helmfile and Kustomize

• AI-assisted development

  Daily use of GitHub Copilot and OpenAI Codex, connecting MCP servers for additional context and using reusable AI skills and tools such as rtk and superpowers.

• APIs & data

  • REST, OpenAPI, gRPC, Protobuf and GraphQL
  • Authentication with OAuth, JWT and PASETO
  • PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis and Valkey; migrations with goose and Liquibase
  • Event-driven systems using NATS JetStream, Redis Pub/Sub, Redis Streams, WebSockets and server-sent events (SSE)

• Cloud & delivery

  • AWS: IAM, RDS, S3, EKS and Route 53
  • Docker, Terraform and in-house infrastructure tooling
  • Git, GitHub Actions, Harness and Jenkins

• Testing & observability

  • Unit, integration, smoke and end-to-end testing; micro and macro benchmarking
  • testify, mockery and testcontainers-go
  • Logging, metrics and instrumentation with Datadog, Elasticsearch and OpenTelemetry

• Engineering practices

  • Service, database and API design; event-driven and hexagonal architecture
  • Test-driven development, maintainable code and the Twelve-Factor App principles
  • Collaboration in Scrum and Kanban teams

• Additional background

  • 4+ years of professional C++ experience
  • Previous professional work with C#/.NET, Java and Python
  • Familiar with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, with some React experience