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A few things about me.

I'm a full-stack engineer at PayPal in Scottsdale, AZ, working on developer platforms and reliability for the core payments stack. My current focus is Pal — a Slack-native AI assistant that gives ~28k internal users self-serve access to FCI data, incident reports, and MCP tooling.

Before PayPal I wrapped an M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Florida, and spent two and a half years as a full-stack engineer at RealAdvisor — remote from the US, shipping growth features and platform work for a Swiss real-estate product.

I care about small, sharp tools; fast iteration loops; writing the thing down before building it; and boring infrastructure that stays out of your way. When I'm not writing code I'm usually lifting, reading, or catching up on a documentary.

experience

  1. 01

    PayPal

    Software Engineer, Fullstack

    • Leading the development of Pal, a Slack-based AI assistant that gives ~28k users self-serve access to FCI data, in-Slack report sharing, and faster insights into incidents.
    • Building the platform foundation for cross-team integrations and monitoring so frontline and Observability teams can plug in their MCP tools quickly.
    Jan 2026 — PresentScottsdale, AZ
  2. 02

    PayPal

    Software Engineer Intern, Fullstack

    • Developed the most-utilized MCP tool in the SRE org (21.6% usage among 50+ tools) integrating ServiceNow with natural-language querying and incident impact metrics (business errors, TPV impact, ownership attribution), plus contributed to a Slack agent for team operations including BigQuery execution and FCI impact report generation.
    • Engineered an enterprise-scale automation platform that reduced endpoint onboarding by 99.7% (3 days → 5 minutes) through Airflow orchestration, processing 1000+ endpoints and attributing 14.34M average daily errors across Tier 1 services in PayPal’s global payment ecosystem (PayPal, Venmo, Braintree, Xoom).
    May 2025 — Aug 2025Scottsdale, AZ
  3. 03

    University of Florida

    Fullstack Engineer

    • Built a containerized Slack bot with Podman, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, an artifact registry, and automated cron deployment for Bugzilla integration.
    • Modernized documentation infrastructure by migrating a legacy wiki to MkDocs, using the SLURM-based HiPerGator supercomputer with sbatch job distribution to parallelize web scraping and markdown generation across multiple compute nodes.
    • Migrated SLURM analytics from MariaDB to PostgreSQL with partitioning for scalable HPC workload insights.
    Aug 2024 — Dec 2025Gainesville, FL
  4. 04

    RealAdvisor

    Full Stack Software Engineer

    • Deployed a self-hosted n8n marketing instance running 2M executions/month on $200 infrastructure, saving $10K/month.
    • Redesigned CMA Reports, cutting churn from 30% to 12% and driving 400 active subscriptions at $160K MRR.
    • Introduced an email-sequences feature producing 1,000 leads/month, lowering acquisition cost by $200K and yielding $100K in revenue.
    • Devised a segmented PostgreSQL backup strategy (pre-data / post-data + pg_sample) that shrank dev-branch data from 6GB to 500MB — ~92% reduction.
    • Enhanced Next.js page delivery by caching server-rendered pages in MongoDB and Cloudflare Cache API, cutting response time 160ms → 40ms.
    Dec 2021 — Jul 2024Geneva, Switzerland · Remote

education

  1. 01

    University of Florida

    M.Sc. in Computer Science · GPA 3.94

    Aug 2024 — Dec 2025Gainesville, FL
  2. 02

    Osmania University

    B.E. in Computer Science · GPA 3.88

    Aug 2018 — Jun 2022Hyderabad, IN

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