Michael Raymond Cho
SSenior Backend Engineer at Databricks · Payments infrastructure
- Databricks
- New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)
- 3+ years experience
- Carnegie Mellon University
- English
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Overview
Currently at Databricks, where I work on payments infrastructure. Grew the payments platform team from 4 to 35 engineers.
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- Second opinions on Kafka decisions
- Questions about payments infrastructure
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Skills
PostgreSQLKafkaPCI DSSJava
Experience
- Senior Backend EngineerSep 2025 - PresentDatabricks · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
- Led the migration of 65 services to Kafka.
- Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 605ms to 71ms.
- Backend EngineerJun 2023 - May 2025Qualcomm · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
- Designed the reconciliation system that matches 7 million transactions a day.
- Shipped 27 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
Projects
Conference talk: lessons from payments platform
2025What went wrong and what worked while scaling payments infrastructure.
Payments infrastructure benchmark
2022Reproducible benchmarks comparing Java and Kafka on real workloads.
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Education
- Carnegie Mellon UniversityBS, Electronics and Communication2018 - 2022
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