I am a self-taught systems engineer with extensive experience designing, building and maintaining highly available, high load front-end and back-end infrastructures. My depth of experience includes everything from ground-up network topology design, hardware builds, server deployment, server tuning, API development, performance optimization, database administration, development of custom front-end and back-end web applications, enterprise mobile apps, real-time custom business analytics platforms, and much more. I am a true hacker at heart, and I have taught myself pretty much everything that I know through hands-on real-life experience.