002 ABOUT
I've been shipping code since 2010 — Rails first, now Go, Rust and Kubernetes, whatever the problem actually calls for. I don't chase a stack, I deliver what's needed for each case. Fifteen-plus years in, I run engineering at Persado: resourcing, hiring, architecture calls, and clearing the path so my team can ship. Nowadays I produce software more than I write it — the output one person can point at a problem has grown by orders of magnitude, and most of my job is aiming it well.
A "simplicity-first" engineer at heart, raised on Lean and Agile in demanding environments. I think a lot about how AI-assisted development changes the shape of software delivery — where agents belong in the loop, and where human judgment can't be automated away. I sometimes write about it.
003 EXPERIENCE
- Directs delivery of all Persado integrations with third-party platforms and the data ingestion pipeline, in close collaboration with Data Engineering & DevOps.
- Drives adoption of AI tooling across the team without letting the quality bar slip.
- Grew the integrations ecosystem to a dozen+ enterprise platforms — Braze, Mailchimp, Klaviyo, Emarsys, Acoustic — making integrations a primary driver of client retention.
- Partnered with DevOps on a full-scale Kubernetes migration: multi-cloud across AWS and Azure, data layer moved from MariaDB to PostgreSQL.
- Scaled the engineering team to 7, driving hiring and onboarding for expanding roadmaps.
- Dockerized the project suite and moved the UI layer to React, cutting architectural complexity.
- Cut "Pro Email" content-generation latency with a 97% performance win, migrating the data layer from MariaDB to Elasticsearch.
- Built "Persado Connect for SFMC," automating enterprise client onboarding onto Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
- Architected a proprietary e-commerce platform that became the company's flagship offering.
- Built responsive web apps and RESTful/JSON integrations for enterprise clients, RoR/HTML5/CSS3/JS.
004 STACK
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Languages
- Ruby
- TypeScript / JS
- Go
- Rust
- Python
Data & Infra
- Docker / Kubernetes
- PostgreSQL / MySQL
- Redis / Mongo / Citus
- Airflow / Airbyte
- Snowflake / DuckDB
Leadership
- Resource & capacity planning
- Change management
- Hiring & mentoring
- Strategic leadership
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005 OWN PROJECTS
006 BUILT FOR FRIENDS & FAMILY
007 EDUCATION
University of Ioannina
Mountain Goat Software
Coursera