Work

Experience and selected projects.

Experience

Mercari, Inc.

Backend Engineer Intern

  • /Delivered backend features for Mercari's global coupon and payments platform using Go, gRPC, Kubernetes, and distributed microservices, supporting multi-country expansion and foreign-currency coupon flows.
  • /Led the end-to-end implementation of the Mercard Limited Payment Coupon feature enabling coupon support for the bottom 5% of credit card users without credit limits, with a projected annual impact of 81M GMV across 2,500+ coupons.
  • /Improved reliability of time-sensitive notification pipelines by implementing Datadog monitoring/alerting, optimizing indexed query paths, and enabling timezone-aware processing across regional workers and Pub/Sub systems.
  • /Led API and Proto contract migrations across services, introducing currency-aware coupon handling and release-safety improvements that reduced rollout risk and improved cross-service compatibility.
Jan 2026 - Jun 2026
GogRPCKubernetesPub/SubDatadog

FullStacktics

Freelance

  • /Engineered a production-ready Google Trends API using FastAPI, reducing response latency by 35% using Redis caching.
Mar 2025 - Apr 2025
PythonFastAPIRedis

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