A practical guide to consistent hashing — what it is, why traditional hashing breaks at scale, and when to use it for database sharding, distributed caching, and Kafka partitions.
Symmetrical.ai
Senior Software Engineer
- Built HRIS and Payroll platform from 0 to 173 enterprise clients and 2,124 MAU on a distributed system of 33 microservices processing 17.6M requests/month, at a startup backed by $18.5M Series A funding.
- Navigated two major product pivots, maintaining system stability and team alignment throughout.
- Took leadership of several technical initiatives and team deliveries, eventually assuming end-to-end ownership as Technical Lead of a 6-person engineering team, overseeing architecture, delivery, and technical direction.
- Introduced LLM-based agents to automate internal workflows and enhance product capabilities.
Tech stack: Kotlin, Spring Boot, MongoDB, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS, TypeScript, React.js, Mastra
- Warsaw
