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Senior Backend Engineer at PepsiCo · Python, rate limiting

PepsiCo
San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)
3+ years experience
MIT
English
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Overview

Senior Backend Engineer at PepsiCo, focused on API platforms. Wrote the rate limiting service that now handles 19 million requests a day. Previously at MongoDB. Swimming before work keeps me sane.

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Skills
PythonRESTdistributed systemsrate limitingDjangoPostgreSQLOpenAPI

Experience

  1. Senior Backend Engineer
    Nov 2024 - Present
    PepsiCo · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Grew the public API team from 4 to 27 engineers.
    • Moved 61% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Backend Engineer
    Oct 2023 - Nov 2024
    MongoDB · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Wrote the REST service that now handles 28 million requests a day.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 19 minutes to under 3.

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Education

  1. MIT
    SB, Information Technology
    2019 - 2023

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