Platform engineering and content services for in-vehicle infotainment and automotive media streaming. Go, Rust, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS.

• Member of the Platform & Engineering Enablement team, building shared infrastructure libraries and GitOps CI/CD for Kubernetes, Kafka, NATS.io, Keycloak, and gRPC.
• Built Bifrost, an IoT/multimedia SaaS platform for streaming real-time media across networked devices.
• Refactored Cinemo CORE backend services to support 24+ media integrations, including Spotify, YouTube Music, and Apple Music, for a ~20% performance lift.
• Built Adaptive Reality Intelligence Agent (ARIA), a privacy-first, context-aware music platform combining local Rust processing with a cloud intelligence layer. Won Best Innovation at Cinemo Hackathon 2025.
• Supported high availability and reliability for distributed automotive media services used by Daimler and Hyundai.

Recipe, menu and product catalogue services for a global meal-kit platform serving 6M+ customers. Go, Kotlin, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS.

• Developed and maintained recipe services, migrating legacy Mendix applications to Go microservices across the UK, Nordics, Japan, and Benelux.
• Led an end-to-end performance overhaul of a critical menu planning service, improving localized database performance by 300%.
• Rewrote SKU ingestion pipelines handling hundreds of thousands of SKUs, removing severe CPU spikes under heavy vendor data streams.
• Led the Product Catalog initiative, replacing a rigid monolithic data model across 8 global brands with a flexible multi-brand foundation. Contributed $14M in net revenue and $6M in customer value.
• Built three Kotlin microservices (Product Catalog, SKU Ingestion, Recipe Ingestion) and onboarded Factor75 US and EU.
• Mentored engineers through the HelloMint program.

Backend engineering for Zalando Lounge and Zalando Outlet logistics and loyalty products on event-driven architecture. Go, PostgreSQL, Nakadi/Kafka, and AWS.

• Designed and deployed Wühlmaus, an article routing system for high-volume logistics, delivering near-100% order-picking accuracy.
• Built and operated the zPoints loyalty platform, capturing €6.6M in sales revenue.
• Built GDPR user-removal workflows for Zalando Outlet, confirming completed deletions to central compliance systems.

Backend and Android development for Arisan Mapan, a community savings and purchasing service for lower-income families. Python/Django, Go, and Android.

• Led development and maintenance of the Arisan Mapan main site (Python/Django, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis).
• Led Android development of the Mapan app, selected for the Google Launchpad Accelerator.
• Refactored core and payment services, migrating parts of the stack from Python/Django to Go and cutting API response times and server CPU usage.