Available · Q3 onward

Cloud infrastructure
that doesn't break at scale.

I'm Shadow Monarch — a cloud infrastructure engineer. I built LaunchVerse from the ground up and have spent the last 6 years shipping backend platforms across international teams. Backend is my depth; frontend is something I do when needed.

role · infra

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Distributed systems, platform engineering, SRE. I design the stuff product engineers don't want to think about.

Remote · 4 continents shipped
throughput

12M+

requests/day on LaunchVerse infra

reliability

99.99%

rolling 12-mo SLO across critical services

flagship · 2022 — now

LaunchVerse Cloud

A multi-region, multi-cloud control plane I designed and built end-to-end. Edge routing, autoscaling Kubernetes fleets, declarative IaC, and a self-serve deploy experience for product engineers.

3
regions live
40+
services orchestrated
62%
P95 latency cut
specialties
  • Distributed systems
  • Kubernetes platforms
  • IaC & GitOps
  • Observability & SRE
honest

Backend-heavy, frontend-literate.

I can wire up auth, build a functional dashboard, and keep UI clean. For pixel-perfect design, I collaborate with people who actually enjoy CSS.

global

Berlin → London → SF.

Async-native. Worked with teams across timezones, contracts, and production incidents.

Stack

AWS
GCP
Azure
Kubernetes
Terraform
Go
Rust
Python
PostgreSQL
Kafka
Redis
gRPC

Experience

2022 — Now

LaunchVerse

Founding Infrastructure Engineer

Remote · Global

  • Architected multi-region cloud platform from zero to 12M+ requests/day.
  • Cut P95 latency 62% with edge compute + adaptive caching layer.
  • Authored the IaC monorepo (Terraform + Pulumi) shipping 40+ services.
2020 — 2022

Stripe-scale Fintech (NDA)

Senior Platform Engineer

London, UK

  • Owned Kubernetes platform serving 300+ engineers across 6 countries.
  • Built zero-downtime DB migration tooling used company-wide.
2018 — 2020

Helios Cloud

Site Reliability Engineer

Berlin, DE

  • Slashed incident MTTR from 47m to 6m with auto-remediation runbooks.
  • Designed observability stack on top of Prometheus + OpenTelemetry.