Own and operate the data plane: develop Envoy/WASM filters for deep packet inspection, deploy and manage EKS workloads with Helm/GitOps and CI/CD, integrate Redis sidecars, provide observability (Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry), ensure reliable audit log streaming, and author ADRs as the data plane evolves.

Lead architecture and development of a cloud-native, multi-tenant control plane. Design and scale distributed, event-driven systems and high-throughput backends, ensure performance and compliance, partner with data/ML teams, drive infrastructure strategy, mentor engineers, and guide long-term platform architecture.