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Walk us through a time you debugged a production incident under pressure. What was the root cause?
Background & experience
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Production incident
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Why this role
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…so we had a cascading failure in the payments service right before a peak window.
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I traced it to a connection-pool exhaustion — a retry storm was opening far more connections than the database could hold.
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I added exponential backoff and a circuit breaker, then wrote a postmortem so the team…