maya.chen
available for staff-level conversations · q3 2026

Maya Che. Backend at scale.

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Senior backend engineer at Lattice Pay. I build payment rails that
move ~$2.4B/month — Go, Rust, Postgres, Kafka, the boring parts done right.
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Selected work

Four projects I've shipped in the last two years. Hover for stack.

2026 Tech Lead

Atlas — multi-region ledger

Rebuilt the core double-entry ledger as an active-active service across three regions. Strongly consistent writes via Raft, lock-free reads. Replaced a Postgres-per-region setup that bled an hour of downtime every quarter.

99.997% availability over 12 months · p99 write latency 14ms
  • Rust
  • Raft
  • Postgres
  • FoundationDB
  • gRPC
  • Terraform
2025 Lead Engineer

Sieve — real-time fraud pipeline

Streaming feature store + decision engine. Replaced a batch model that ran on yesterday's data with sub-50ms scoring on every authorization. Cut chargeback losses materially in the first quarter live.

−42% fraud loss · 18k decisions/sec at peak
  • Go
  • Kafka
  • Flink
  • Redis
  • ScyllaDB
  • ONNX
2025 Staff IC

Conduit — idempotent webhooks

A webhook delivery service that survives partner outages without losing or duplicating events. Exactly-once semantics via outbox pattern, retry budgets, and signed cursors. Open-sourced the client SDK.

0 dupes across 1.1B deliveries · 99.99% within 30s
  • Go
  • Postgres
  • NATS JetStream
  • OpenTelemetry
2024 Senior IC

Coldfront — query cost control

A query planner shim in front of our analytics warehouse that rejects, rewrites, or queues expensive queries based on user budgets. Eliminated "the dashboard that took down prod" as a recurring incident class.

−68% warehouse spend · zero analyst-caused incidents YTD
  • Python
  • sqlglot
  • Snowflake
  • Airflow
  • Datadog
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Skills

What I reach for, grouped by problem space.

Languages

  • Go
  • Rust
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • Elixir
  • SQL

Data & storage

  • Postgres
  • FoundationDB
  • Kafka
  • Redis
  • ScyllaDB
  • Snowflake

Distributed systems

  • Raft / Paxos
  • Event sourcing
  • Outbox pattern
  • Idempotency
  • CRDTs

Infra & ops

  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • AWS
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Grafana
  • eBPF

Practice

  • Tech leadership
  • RFCs & design review
  • Incident command
  • Mentorship

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Writing

Field notes from production. Roughly monthly.

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Get in touch

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