Startup 2021-06 → 2023-11
Realtime Analytics Platform
Co-founded a startup delivering second-by-second analytics for SaaS product teams. Sold to a Series B competitor in 2023.
- Role
- Co-founder & CTO
- Period
- 2021-06 → 2023-11
Tech stack
- Go
- ClickHouse
- React
- Kubernetes
- AWS
Overview
Built and led a team of seven engineers shipping a sub-second analytics product. Owned architecture, hiring, and customer-facing engineering.
Highlights
- Scaled ingest from 1k to 250k events/second on the same infra footprint.
- Drove p99 query latency from 3.2s to 180ms over six months.
- Migrated the platform to multi-region active-active without downtime.
Lessons Learned
The best engineering decisions look obvious in retrospect. Most of them came from talking to customers, not from looking at dashboards.