Ownership-driven Full-Stack Engineer with 4+ years building event-driven distributed systems, scalable cloud-native SaaS platforms, and high-throughput microservice backends in production. Proficient in Python, TypeScript, and Node.js with hands-on Kafka streaming and Kubernetes orchestration. Operates with an engineer's first principles — deep curiosity, customer obsession, and a bias for long-term system quality over short-term speed.