Founding Engineer | Senior Backend Lead | Fintech & Payments Specialist I’m a passionate founding engineer who has scaled two startups from 0 → 1, building high-performance backend systems and scalable fintech SaaS products from scratch. My work spans microservices architectures, distributed systems, and database design optimized for real-world load and reliability. I specialize in database modeling, query/index optimization, and real-time issue detection & observability, ensuring every system I build is not just scalable, but predictable, reliable, and insight-driven. With experience leading engineering teams and owning end-to-end system architecture, I thrive in fast-moving environments where ideas rapidly turn into production-ready products. Whether it’s designing resilient services, optimizing DB access patterns, or building smooth payment & rewards workflows, I focus on clean engineering and long-term scalability. If you need help with architecture reviews, system design, debugging, infra decisions, or startup tech execution, I can guide you with clarity, experience, and speed.