location: Building things that process real money
role: Full-Stack SaaS Engineer & Tech Lead
team: 5 engineers shipping enterprise software weekly
currently:
- Orchestrating payments across 5 gateways with zero duplicate charges
- Scaling lead management to 1M+ records with sub-2s queries
- Making MongoDB aggregation pipelines 70% faster with ESR indexing
- Shipping subscription engines where race conditions don't exist
stack: [Node.js, MongoDB, React, TypeScript, Redis, BullMQ, FeathersJS]
const engineering = {
performance: {
rule: "Measure → Profile → Index → Validate",
proof: "8.5s → 2.1s on the query everyone said was 'just slow'"
},
payments: {
rule: "Every transaction is sacred. Every webhook is suspect.",
proof: "0 duplicate charges across 5 gateways for 8+ months"
},
architecture: {
rule: "Design for 10x. Ship for today. Refactor when it hurts.",
proof: "24-file config mess → 1 clean system, zero downtime"
},
leadership: {
rule: "Clear PRs > clever PRs.",
proof: "5-person team shipping enterprise features weekly"
}
};
if (you.need("payments", "performance", "scale")) → let's talk