Senior engineer with pattern of strong ownership, leading cross-org projects, and focused on business impact and enabling user success. Experience spans product-backend, platform/infrastructure, and minimal frontend.

Experience

DropboxSenior Software Engineer

2025 — Now

Infrastructure Engineer (IC4) / Tech Lead

Team: Databases

Org: Persistent Systems

(Large scale distributed database systems)

Tech Lead during period of major team transition (40% team attrition including previous TL and EM).

Stepped in from different team to fill the role with short notice.

Managing fleet of >10,000 databases totaling 9PB of data.

Lead project to achieve total data durability (0 RPO) in the event of sudden data center loss. Brought database fleet from 0% to 100% diversity across 3 on-prem facilities per region, creating the first multi-AZ (availability zone) model at the company. Required software stack improvements and physically trucking thousands of databases hosts between facilities. Planning, approval, and execution completed within 3 months.

DropboxSenior Software Engineer

2022 — 2025

Infrastructure Engineer (IC3)

Team: Metadata

Org: Persistent Systems

(Large scale distributed database systems)

Co-owned (designer, implementer, maintainer) all critical, foundational metadata storage systems used by 1000+ engineers.

Served 10+ million QPS via our high-scale, distributed database systems and caches.

Key engineer supporting all customer success of the default database at Dropbox, used by ~every service at the company for ~every feature requiring data persistence (Edgestore).

Maintainer for proprietary strongly consistent caching system.

DRI for in-house implementation of DynamoDB on proprietary key-value store.

Supported all uses of non-persistent storage at company (mainly memcache).

Lead multi-quarter roadmap planning.

Lead cross-team and cross-org, multi-quarter designs and implementations.

Partnered with senior management to bring structure and process back onto team after period of significant attrition, in addition to rebuilding lost customer/user relationships pivotal to team roadmap.

Invested heavily into team culture, knowledge sharing, and growth of [virtual] collaboration.

Shepherded entire tech stack around my services as necessary to ensure company success, from top-level user-application support (debugging client team code that used our services) all the way down to hardware capacity forecasting and purchasing.