Rush
Shopify SaaS platform modernization
Helped evolve a Shopify post-purchase SaaS platform from monolith pressure toward a domain-driven service platform.
Experience
Staff Backend Engineer for MVP-to-scale backend systems.
I work best where product direction and backend reality need to meet: a first MVP that must survive real customers, or a growing platform that has outgrown its original architecture.
Senior signals
- - MVP-to-scale SaaS architecture
- - Multi-tenant platform design
- - Domain-driven backend architecture
- - Event-driven migration with Kafka, outbox, Debezium CDC, and CQRS-style read models
- - Kubernetes-based reliability and rollout discipline
- - API gateway and legacy API modernization
- - Engineering ownership boundaries and delivery operating model
Selected proof
NextRep
AI-native B2B SaaS architecture
Designed modular MVP-to-scale architecture with Next.js, NestJS, MongoDB, Clerk, tenant-aware identity, and enrichment workflows.
Right Hand
Engineering operating model and platform direction
Created technology direction, reorganized engineering into domain-aligned teams, and replaced a paid LMS path with a self-hosted alternative.