Axoni ↗

Distributed ledger and real-time data replication platform for global financial institutions. Worked on the flagship HYDRA product.

Highlights

• Led core architectural decisions for HYDRA, Axoni's data-integrity platform, built on Typelevel Scala, gRPC, Kafka, and PostgreSQL. The system delivered a 500% performance improvement over the previous blockchain implementation and enabled $20M+ in new contracts.
• Led a team of 4 engineers through the full lifecycle of HYDRA's real-time validation and cryptographic replication components, holding a bar of byte-for-byte data accuracy at speeds the previous blockchain implementation could not match.
• Owned technical relationships with major clients and led complex on-site and remote integrations for their post-trade workflow systems.
• Served as Axoni's technical lead during the company's partial acquisition, conducting buyer demonstrations and leading the technical due diligence.
• Restructured Axoni's Agile practice (refinement, planning, retrospectives) and reduced meeting overhead by 75% while maintaining delivery predictability.
• Founded internal Scala study groups and functional-programming sessions that shaped hiring decisions and engineering practices over multiple years.
• Partnered with product management to define roadmap priorities, balancing market demand against technical feasibility.
• Established code review and technical standards that reduced review cycles and raised code quality across the team.

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