Senior Backend Engineer with 20+ years of experience building scalable backend systems, realtime services, and production-grade APIs across enterprise, fintech, cybersecurity, and cloud-native environments.
Recently focused on:
- realtime streaming systems
- async architectures
- AI gateway patterns
- distributed backend services
- DevSecOps and operational reliability
- Java (8–21), Kotlin, TypeScript, PHP
- Spring Boot, Quarkus (Mutiny), Node.js
- Microservices, Distributed Systems, REST APIs
- Realtime Streaming, SSE, Redis Pub/Sub
- PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka
- Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD
- Observability, DevSecOps, Production Operations
Prototype realtime AI gateway featuring:
- OpenAI-compatible streaming APIs
- Redis pub/sub event streaming
- BullMQ async workers
- SSE token streaming
- rate limiting
- structured observability
- production-minded backend architecture
Concurrency handling with optimistic locking, retry strategies, transactional correctness, and PostgreSQL consistency patterns.
Production-style CI/CD and DevSecOps pipeline showcasing:
- SAST and container scanning
- dependency scanning
- CI security workflows
- GitLab pipeline orchestration
- security-oriented backend delivery practices
TDD-driven Quarkus service showcasing reactive backend patterns, clean architecture, and production-style engineering workflows.
Contributed to enterprise-grade open-source projects across Java, Go, Rust, Python, and PHP ecosystems including:
- Spring Security
- Kubernetes SIGs (controller-tools)
- GitPython
- Symfony
- Rust reqwest
Highlights include:
- fixing repository autodiscovery in linked Git worktrees (GitPython)
- resolving HTTP request conversion inconsistencies in reqwest while preserving HTTP version and extensions across blocking and async behavior
- contributing a Symfony Validator fix supporting PHP 8.4 property hooks in property metadata resolution
- improving schema validation and regression coverage in framework configuration systems
- adapting framework internals and tests to evolving language features and cross-version compatibility requirements