Senior Backend Engineer with 20+ years of experience building scalable backend systems, cloud-native platforms, realtime services, production-grade APIs, and delivery workflows across enterprise, fintech, cybersecurity, and DevSecOps environments.
Recently focused on:
- realtime streaming systems
- async architectures
- AI gateway patterns
- distributed backend services
- DevSecOps and platform engineering
- continuous verification and delivery workflows
- infrastructure security automation
- CI/CD portability and developer productivity
- Java (8–21), Kotlin, TypeScript, Go, PHP
- Spring Boot, Quarkus (Mutiny), Node.js
- Microservices, Distributed Systems, REST APIs
- Realtime Streaming, SSE, Redis Pub/Sub
- PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka
- Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
- GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, CircleCI
- Checkov, SAST, Container Scanning
- Infrastructure-as-Code security
- Observability, Production Operations
- Security automation and governance workflows
- Continuous Verification
Lightweight DevSecOps and platform-engineering showcase featuring:
- Terraform infrastructure scenarios
- Checkov IaC security scanning
- GitLab CI security workflows
- remediation and soft-fail governance flows
- Go-based security reporting tooling
- configurable accepted-findings policies
Focused on practical Infrastructure-as-Code security automation and platform engineering workflows.
Prototype realtime AI gateway featuring:
- OpenAI-compatible streaming APIs
- Redis pub/sub event streaming
- BullMQ async workers
- SSE token streaming
- structured observability
- continuous verification workflows
- GitHub Actions and CircleCI integration
- production-minded backend architecture
Concurrency handling with optimistic locking, retry strategies, transactional correctness, and PostgreSQL consistency patterns.
Production-style CI/CD, DevSecOps, and delivery engineering showcase featuring:
- 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