Team Lead at CP Axtra·10+ yrs·Commerce & AI

Senior / Staff Full Stack Engineer (React, Node.js, Next.js)
Building scalable commerce, analytics, and AI systems

Designed and led high-scale platforms with real-world impact across performance, cost, and product growth.

Supported about 80% sales growth, reduced API latency by about 30%, and delivered production-grade systems across commerce, CMS, and AI products.

10+

Years Experience

~80%

Sales Growth Supported

~30%

Cost Reduction

Scale

High-scale Production Systems

Technical ownership where early decisions materially affect growth, reliability, and team velocity.

I currently work across commerce, CMS, and AI-enabled products where delivery quality depends on early technical choices. The role is not just implementation. It is shaping boundaries, aligning execution, removing delivery friction, and making change safer over time.

01

Business-critical products

Commerce and platform work where speed, ownership, and long-term flexibility directly affect business execution.

02

Cross-functional leadership

Translate technical direction into execution plans that frontend, backend, and product teams can move on together.

03

Technical decisions with delivery consequences

Focus on boundaries, caching, event flow, and release patterns that keep future changes faster and less risky.

01

How I
think.

I approach engineering as a balance between speed, growth, and long-term maintainability.

I focus on solving the right problem before optimizing prematurely and designing systems that reduce future complexity instead of hiding it.

I make tradeoffs explicit, especially where performance, cost, flexibility, and operational clarity pull in different directions.

For me, good engineering is not just about writing code. It is about building products teams can extend without friction and helping them grow efficiently over time.

01

Design for business movement.

I optimize for products that reduce engineering drag, improve release flexibility, and keep change affordable as the business grows.

02

Own the risky decisions early.

The highest-value technical leadership work happens before scale exposes weak assumptions: boundaries, rollout strategy, integration points, and failure paths.

03

Keep products operable under growth.

Reliability starts with clarity. Products should be observable, resilient, and understandable enough that teams can extend them without hidden operational debt.

04

Use leverage early.

The best early decisions make the next release cheaper than the last one. I want products where new features feel additive instead of risky.

02

Technical depth across
product, platform, and delivery.

Frontend
ReactNext.js
Backend
Node.jsNestJSGraphQL
Data Layer
ClickHouseRedis
Infrastructure & Messaging
KafkaGoogle Pub/SubAWSGCP
AI
OpenAI APIGoogle GeminiLLM Integration
03

High-impact products I've
owned from design to production.

Commerce · MigrationFlagship Project

E-commerce Platform Migration (Shopify → Custom)

Led migration to a custom commerce platform enabling full control over performance and long-term platform flexibility.

30%API latency reduced
80%Sales growth supported
5Core commerce domains
System Flow

Technical Depth

Optimized GraphQL for efficient data fetching, introduced Kafka-based event-driven architecture, designed modular backend services, and reduced API bottlenecks across core flows.

Impact

Supported about 80% sales growth, reduced API latency by about 30%, and improved platform scalability and flexibility.

Simplified a complex commerce stack into a faster, more scalable platform with clearer ownership.

NestJSGraphQLKafkaMySQLRedis
CMS · E-commercePlatform Snapshot

Dynamic CMS & Page Builder

Built a backend-driven page builder that enabled dynamic UI rendering without repeated frontend deployments.

0Frontend deploys for content changes
MSMulti-store support
MLMulti-language delivery

Technical Depth

Strapi-based content system, Redis and CDN caching, multi-store architecture, and API-driven layouts designed for maintainability and scale.

Impact

Eliminated repeated frontend deployments, improved time-to-market, and enabled scalable content management across storefronts.

Turned content operations into a scalable system teams could update without engineering bottlenecks.

StrapiNestJSReactRedis
AI · Real-time · Voice

AI + Real-time Product Systems

Designed and led AI-integrated product flows combining LLM workflows, WebRTC communication, and real-time orchestration for production use.

LLMVoice AI agents
WebRTCReal-time comms
RAGKnowledge retrieval

Architecture

Set technical direction across LLM integration boundaries, real-time communication, orchestration logic, and reliability concerns needed for production use.

Impact

Reduced manual workflow steps, improved response speed, and created clearer paths from prototype ideas to usable product capabilities.

Built a scalable system designed for real-time user interactions and production-ready AI workflows.

OpenAIGeminiWebRTCNestJSSocket.IO

Selected work includes:

event-driven pipelinesscalable commerce platformsreal-time analyticsmulti-region deployments
Platform leverage

Commerce migration unlocked ownership and flexibility

The migration work was not a rebuild for its own sake. It reduced vendor dependency, supported sales growth after the move, and gave commerce teams more control over platform evolution.

Operational impact

AI turned workflows into product leverage

Across AI and platform work, the pattern was the same: move manual and fragmented processes into reliable product capabilities with clearer ownership, faster feedback, and stronger execution paths.

Team leverage

Early decisions improved release speed and delivery confidence

The strongest throughline in the portfolio is leverage: better boundaries, MFE-driven release independence, and clearer contracts that make future releases faster and less risky.

Cross-functional delivery

Turn platform direction into coordinated execution across product, frontend, backend, and platform workstreams without losing delivery momentum.

Technical direction

Own boundaries, integration patterns, caching strategy, and failure-path decisions early so rollout risk is reduced.

Team leverage

Use clearer design, MFE rollout patterns, and technical direction to make future releases faster and easier to coordinate.

Operational thinking

Build products that are observable, resilient, and cost-aware, including infrastructure decisions that reduced cloud spend by about 30%.

04

System Thinking
for growth.

I design products that hold up under both traffic and product complexity.

1

Event-driven architecture

I design event-driven patterns where decoupling, resilience, and asynchronous growth matter across product and platform domains.

2

Caching strategies using Redis and CDN

Redis and CDN caching are designed intentionally to improve responsiveness while preserving freshness and maintainability.

3

Clear service boundaries

I define ownership and interface contracts early so systems stay modular and teams can evolve them without excessive coupling.

4

Observability-first design

Dashboards, tracing, logs, and alerts are part of the design from the start so debugging and operational reliability are not afterthoughts.

5

Designing for failure, not just success

I design for retries, degradation, recovery, and failure visibility instead of only optimizing the happy path.

"I focus on products that can evolve without frequent rewrites."

Event-driven boundaries

I design event-driven flows where decoupling, resilience, and asynchronous growth matter, especially across catalog, pricing, inventory, CMS, and workflow domains.

Caching with intent

Redis and CDN caching are leveraged as product infrastructure, not afterthoughts. I design around freshness, invalidation, and content velocity, not just response time.

Observability by default

Dashboards, alerting, traces, and failure-path visibility are part of system design early so teams can ship with confidence and recover quickly under load.

Delivery-aware design

I care about platform shape because it changes release speed. Better boundaries, modular frontends, and clearer contracts reduce coordination cost over time.

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Let's Build
Systems That Scale

I focus on designing and leading systems where architecture, performance, and business impact matter.

If you're building complex platforms in commerce, analytics, or AI and need someone to own and scale them, I'd love to connect.

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