Career

Work Experience

My professional journey building production systems and growing as an engineer

Race Database Inc.

Full-Stack & Platform EngineerRemote, USA
October 2024 - Present

Race Database Platform

Built complete event directory platform from scratch

Key Achievements
  • Implemented authentication system with Google + email providers
  • Created role-based access control for athletes, admins, and super admins
  • Built automated scrapers pulling real event data from Ironman and Spartan
  • Designed search and filter systems for thousands of events
  • Created user dashboards for profile and favorite management
Next.jsReactTypeScriptSupabasePython

YUKLID Infrastructure

Set up production Kubernetes environment on bare metal

Key Achievements
  • Planned and implemented complete networking, storage, and security layers
  • Built CI/CD pipeline enabling seamless deployments
  • Set up monitoring with Prometheus + Grafana for system observability
  • Implemented service mesh with Istio for security and traffic management
  • Configured automatic SSL certificates and centralized authentication
KubernetesDockerIstioCephJenkinsPrometheusGrafana

Key Learnings

Started by mapping complete system architecture before writing code
Learned to over-communicate when working remotely across time zones
Managed projects using Jira and Notion for team alignment
Got hired to build one product, ended up building infrastructure for two