Spotify NYC, software engineer. Working remotely in Houston
Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
Houston, Texas, United States
AI/Agentic System → Cursor for Legal Discovery
• Built a multi-step reasoning engine that breaks down complex legal research questions, executes them across document collections, and synthesizes coherent answers - handles questions that would take paralegals hours or days
• Built document understanding that works across formats lawyers use - PDFs, Office docs, emails, images, audio, video
• Built multi-provider LLM abstraction with intelligent caching that cut API costs by 85%+
• Built Graph RAG that understands relationships between people, organizations, and events - finds connections keyword search misses
• Built context management that handles arbitrarily large document sets - compresses intelligently and maintains accuracy even when source material far exceeds context windows
• Built citation and provenance tracking - every AI answer links back to exact source documents with page numbers
• Zero customer complaints on answer accuracy
Knowledge Graph & Entity Resolution
• Built proprietary canonical entity resolution that disambiguates and links entities across millions of documents - connects aliases, name variations, and references scattered across thousands of pages into a unified identity graph
Infrastructure
• Designed and built the entire AWS infrastructure in Terraform - one command spins up the full stack from scratch
• Built video/audio processing with GPU-optimized clusters - handles conversion, storage optimization, and browser-playable formats at scale
• Built a custom ECS autoscaler that watches queue depth and scales workers based on queue pressure
• Set up all monitoring, CI/CD, and service-to-service communication
• Performed 95% of all SOC II and ISO 27001 compliance work - policies, controls, audit prep
Cost Engineering
• Analyzed and neutralized spend across MongoDB Atlas, AWS, and LLM API calls, saved $100,000+ in wasted infra costs
2019 — Now
2019 — Now
New York City Metropolitan Area
Individual contributions directly account for $100,000,000+ per quarter in ads revenue
Design and implementation of low latency systems to preserve the integrity of the user’s experience on Spotify
Lead engineer on Apple’s SkAdNetwork endpoint. Used to give Spotify credit for app installs via ads served through Spotify iOS app
Expert in root cause analysis and debugging distributed systems
2018 — 2019
2018 — 2019
New York City Metropolitan Area
Design and implementation of management, automation, data collection, performance analysis, monitoring, alerting, and root cause analysis tools
Contributions improved performance, reliability, and cost-savings, throughput for Timeline, Instagram, Oculus data pipelines
Analyzed and improved efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources
Scaled monitored entities by greater than 10x through design and implementation of a dependency graph
2017 — 2018
2017 — 2018
New York City Metropolitan Area
2016 — 2017
2016 — 2017
New York City Metropolitan Area
Design, coding, and testing of critical market and trading components
Wrote multi-threaded, low latency trading systems used in high frequency trading, in C++
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology
Master’s Degree
2018 — 2021
The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Science
2011 — 2015