Senior Rust Systems Engineer

Backend & systems engineer with 18+ years of experience. Solo-built Orch8, a durable workflow orchestration engine in Rust, achieving 2,400+ instances/sec and <3ms latency, with built-in LLM tool calling and ReAct agent loops. Developed a matching engine for a crypto exchange in Node.js/NestJS, processing 4,000+ orders/sec with sub-millisecond latency. Contributed to a zk-SNARK wallet engine at Panther Protocol and led a micro-frontend migration for 4 product teams, managing 15 engineers across 3 time zones. Seeking Senior/Staff Rust systems, backend architecture (Node.js or Rust), Web3/protocol engineering, or AI infrastructure roles. Values product ownership and shipping over process theater.