Principal Engineer specializing in distributed systems and serverless networking at AWS Lambda. Over 9 years of experience designing and delivering large-scale infrastructure solutions that power billions of invocations. Core expertise: Software-defined networking, data plane architecture, network virtualization, and serverless compute platforms. Strong track record of solving complex technical problems in distributed systems while driving significant business impact. Key contributions include: - Designed data plane for software-defined networking in Aurora DSQL - Enabled Lambda IPv6 expansion and clone-aware networking for Lambda SnapStart - Delivered Lambda egress integration with VPC Lattice - Improved VPC networking for AWS Lambda, reducing cold start times - Implemented critical security and data plane APIs for Lambda with EFS and Container Image support - Contributed to open-source projects including Dnsmasq for DNS resilience Technical approach: Focus on building scalable, resilient systems with practical engineering trade-offs. Experience spans network virtualization, ARM architecture enablement, and security-critical infrastructure components. Patents: 9 issued patents in serverless networking and distributed computing. Passionate about solving hard technical problems and translating complex business requirements into elegant technical solutions. Amazon CTO Post on my Work: https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/04/the-invisible-engineering-behind-lambdas-network.html