Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
1) Led development of PayPal’s Credit API Gateway (Java 17, Spring Boot, Kotlin) as a Backend Engineer on the Credit Payments Team, processing 10M+ daily transactions for revolving and non-revolving credit products across Venmo, eBay, and PayPal, supporting a $120B+ global credit business with 99.9% availability
2) Implemented distributed resilience patterns (circuit breakers, bulkheads, retries) across 15+ downstream services, preventing cascading failures and minimizing revenue-impacting outages during production incidents
3) Engineered thread-efficient architecture leveraging Tomcat, Reactor Netty event loop model, achieving ~95% thread efficiency by eliminating blocking I/O
4) Established full-stack observability using OpenTelemetry and Datadog APM, reducing MTTR by 60% and improving production reliability at scale
5) Designed and implemented a hybrid event-driven architecture to process 100M+ loan account migration events, enabling reliable asynchronous workflows
6) Analyzed system behavior and identified optimization opportunities to enhance overall service performance.
7) Contributed to sprint planning, backlog prioritization, and effective breakdown of user stories to ensure timely delivery.
8) Mentored and onboarded new team members, providing technical guidance and supporting their professional growth.