I am a system engineer who cares more about systems that work in production than buzzwords on a slide deck.

I like solving the messy problems—making legacy code maintainable, ensuring payments go through even when third-party APIs flake out, or finding the query that's killing your database during lunch rush.

What gets me excited? Turning “this is too slow” into “wait, what did you change?” Making integrations reliable enough that nobody thinks about them. Building features that actually ship and stay shipped.