Software Engineer at Cornerstone OnDemand

Leading backend development initiatives focused on scalable architecture and distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Designed and implemented scalable backend services using CQRS and Mediator patterns, enabling clean separation of read/write workloads and improving long-term maintainability
• Contributed to distributed system architecture decisions, focusing on stateless APIs, horizontal scalability, and predictable failure handling
• Built a secure, self-service user registration pipeline using ASP.NET Core, EF Core, and SQL Server with strict validation and transactional consistency

Major Achievements

Security & Reliability

• Strengthened platform security by implementing Google reCAPTCHA and email verification, reducing exposure to brute-force and credential-stuffing attacks
• Improved system observability by leveraging structured logging and distributed tracing, accelerating root-cause analysis of production performance issues

Operational Efficiency

• Developed an event-driven bulk data deletion workflow using GraphQL and .NET Core, eliminating manual SQL intervention and reducing operational effort by 85%
• Supported incremental frontend modernization by embedding React components into a legacy ASPX monolith, ensuring backward compatibility during phased migration

Collaboration & Culture

• Collaborated effectively in a remote-friendly setup, participating in async design discussions, code reviews, and incident retrospectives
• Contributed to architectural decisions and technical documentation

Technical Stack

• Backend: C#, .NET 8, ASP.NET Core, EF Core
• Architecture: CQRS, Mediator Pattern, Event-Driven Design
• Database: SQL Server
• Frontend: React, TypeScript
• Cloud: Azure
• Tools: GraphQL, Git, Distributed Tracing