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Backend engineer. Writing about Go, distributed systems, and the messy parts in between.
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Designing a graph-based payroll engine
How we modeled interdependent salary components as a DAG and used Kahn's topological sort to parallelize calculation across 6,000 employees in 30 seconds.
2026-04-18
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