about /me

The short version

Experienced backend engineer who can lead projects from the ground up to completion. The quality of the work is important to me, and working on unknowns is my passion.

Field notes

Staff Software Engineer
at Smallpdf

Dec 2024–Present

Zürich

  • Integrated Stripe alongside Recurly to bring back Alipay recurring payments in China, adding $350k+ .
  • Designed and shipped systems for end-to-end step-up MFA and credential leak validation.
  • Led the backend migration of ~100K active users for tax remediation in the US and Australia.
  • Designed and helped build the organization model and enterprise onboarding for ~40K organizations and 65K members, including 10K enterprise clients.

Senior Software Engineer
at Smallpdf

Sep 2021–Dec 2024

Zürich

  • Led the expansion of a global multi-rail payment system supporting ~$28M in active ARR across Recurly and Adyen.
  • Led the migration from Braintree to Recurly and redesigned the subscription architecture to support multiple payment gateways.
  • Designed and led a Go replacement for Keycloak, cutting auth compute ~90% with no forced re-login.
  • Built and launched sign.com’s initial backend, including its SuperTokens-based authentication system.

…the rest of the rap sheet lives in the CV.

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