Systems Thinker. Builder.

I am a Systems Architect and Backend Engineer at The Home Depot. I build and operate the payment card tender system—the critical path that processes every credit, debit, and gift card transaction across a nationwide store footprint and e-commerce, handling high-throughput daily transaction volumes.

My work sits at the intersection of reliability, observability, and performance. I design high-throughput Go microservices on Google Cloud Platform that absorb Black Friday–scale traffic spikes without degradation. When systems fail under load, I build the tracing infrastructure that makes failures visible.

What I Do

• Make Distributed Systems Visible

  I build the OpenTelemetry pipelines, Grafana dashboards, and tracing standards that turn "it's slow" into "span X in service Y is adding 200ms due to a missing index." My observability work directly caused a 20% latency reduction across payment services.

• Migrate Without Downtime

  I lead zero-downtime migrations of legacy payment systems to type-safe Go microservices. Blue-green deployments, traffic shadowing, automated rollback gates. Every migration I've led has had zero customer impact.

• Local AI & RAG

  I build and test local RAG pipelines. The LLM behind this site runs on my MacBook Pro M4 Max (128GB)—self-hosted inference, no cloud required. Not every call needs to leave your network.

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