Building the next generation of AI-powered automotive retail software — designing systems that serve thousands of car dealerships across North America and make their day-to-day operations seamless.

• Bringing AI into the product — integrating large language models and intelligent automation using Spring AI to help dealerships make faster, smarter decisions
• Designing systems from the ground up — architecting new services that handle high traffic with zero downtime, so dealerships never experience interruptions
• Modernizing legacy systems — leading full-scale code rewrites that make the platform significantly faster and easier for other engineers to build on
• Owning the big picture — involved in high-level design decisions, code reviews, and setting engineering standards across the team

Took ownership of critical backend systems — building features used daily by thousands of dealership employees, ensuring the platform stays fast and reliable at scale.

• Migrated millions of records across databases with zero data loss while the system remained fully operational
• Built real-time data pipelines — implemented Change Data Capture (CDC) for seamless cross-service synchronization
• Optimized core systems — refined database interactions and request processing for high-throughput performance
• Strengthened the foundation — upgraded security libraries and frameworks across services for long-term maintainability
• First responder for production — resolved critical live issues under pressure with minimal downtime
• Mentored new engineers — guided teammates through complex codebases and accelerated their onboarding

Transitioned from writing features to owning entire systems. Delivered some of the most impactful work of my career in this role.

• Achieved a 90x performance boost — complete module rewrite that reduced processing time from 90 seconds to under 1 second
• Managed 10-12 microservices — actively developed and maintained multiple services, shipping 15-20 features that improved user experience
• Built 3 services from scratch — designed systems for customer communication and document generation, replacing manual workflows with automated pipelines
• Led an intern team — mentored interns through real feature development, guiding them to ship production-ready code

Started with a real challenge — building a production system from day one. Received a full-time offer before the internship concluded.

• Built a Recruitment Portal from scratch — designed and developed the entire backend for Tekion's internal hiring platform, used by the talent acquisition team daily
• Shipped to production — the system went live and replaced the legacy hiring workflow, streamlining the recruitment process
• Handled data migration — wrote batch migration scripts to move all historical hiring data to the new platform with zero data loss