Senior Software Engineer | Backend Engineering | Full Stack Development | Distributed Systems | Cloud Infrastructure | AI/LLM Engineering | Enterprise Software Platforms | Scalable Backend Systems | Cloud-Native Applications

Senior Software Engineer with over 13 years of professional experience in software engineering, backend development, full stack development, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, scalable backend systems, cloud-native applications, AI-powered platforms, enterprise software engineering, production infrastructure, and large-scale software delivery. Extensive hands-on experience designing, developing, optimizing, modernizing, scaling, maintaining, debugging, monitoring, deploying, and supporting distributed applications, backend services, operational tooling, analytics systems, cloud-native infrastructure, customer-facing applications, deployment automation systems, internal engineering platforms, scalable APIs, and enterprise-grade backend solutions across remote engineering organizations and international software teams. Strong technical background in software development, backend engineering, backend architecture, application architecture, distributed systems, scalable systems, cloud-native engineering, infrastructure automation, deployment engineering, operational engineering, backend optimization, asynchronous processing, event-driven systems, service-oriented architecture, infrastructure reliability, observability tooling, production engineering, scalable database systems, operational monitoring systems, debugging workflows, performance engineering, infrastructure scaling, release engineering, and long-term software maintainability. Proven ability to contribute across the entire software development lifecycle including technical discovery, architecture planning, implementation, deployment engineering, automated testing, debugging analysis, infrastructure optimization, operational support, production diagnostics, monitoring systems, incident response, root-cause analysis, deployment troubleshooting, backend modernization, engineering collaboration, release coordination, engineering process improvements, and long-term platform scalability initiatives. Extensive experience collaborating with engineering teams, backend engineers, frontend engineers, DevOps engineers, product managers, QA engineers, technical stakeholders, cross-functional organizations, distributed software groups, infrastructure teams, and enterprise engineering environments to deliver scalable backend systems, cloud-native applications, operational tooling, distributed APIs, analytics infrastructure, AI-powered applications, deployment systems, enterprise software platforms, engineering dashboards, operational reporting systems, and customer-facing software products. Hands-on experience with Python, FastAPI, Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, GraphQL, REST APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, event-driven systems, asynchronous workflows, backend optimization, cloud infrastructure, engineering tooling, scalable database systems, analytics platforms, operational dashboards, distributed backend architecture, and enterprise application development. Strong practical experience building AI-powered applications and intelligent backend systems using OpenAI APIs, Claude APIs, LangChain, Langfuse, retrieval-augmented generation, RAG, vector search, semantic retrieval, embeddings, reranking systems, prompt engineering, evaluation workflows, AI observability, semantic search platforms, structured retrieval pipelines, retrieval orchestration systems, document ingestion infrastructure, scalable LLM-powered backend services, AI infrastructure workflows, and intelligent automation systems. Proven experience improving backend scalability, API performance, infrastructure reliability, deployment consistency, operational stability, engineering productivity, software maintainability, production readiness, debugging workflows, testing infrastructure, infrastructure efficiency, cloud resource optimization, deployment engineering, backend optimization, operational visibility, monitoring systems, observability infrastructure, release engineering workflows, scalable deployment systems, and long-term maintainability across enterprise engineering environments and distributed backend systems. Strong engineering ownership mindset with extensive experience contributing to technical leadership, engineering mentorship, architecture reviews, code reviews, technical planning, infrastructure scaling, software modernization, debugging workflows, sprint planning, roadmap discussions, release coordination, deployment engineering, operational engineering, production support, backend modernization initiatives, infrastructure reliability engineering, engineering standards, scalable software engineering best practices, cloud-native platform development, and distributed backend architecture initiatives. Extensive experience building scalable backend services, distributed APIs, operational systems, analytics platforms, deployment systems, cloud-native applications, engineering dashboards, distributed processing systems, internal engineering tooling, enterprise software platforms, AI-powered systems, operational reporting infrastructure, and high-volume production environments supporting enterprise-scale engineering operations and distributed software delivery systems.