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Principal Engineer

Software Architect
Available for hire
Years of experience
24+ years
Available for
Full-time
Available from
28 Aug 2026

Results-driven Principal Engineer with over 20 years of experience building fast, scalable solutions for U.S. companies. Passionate about solving tough problems and improving software architecture to create excellent user experiences. Looking to use my technical skills and leadership to help dynamic, fast-moving, and innovative companies succeed.

Skills and Expertise: ✔️ Writing high-performance, reusable back-end code in Go, Node.js, and Python ✔️ Creating and managing Kubernetes Operators to automate deployment, scaling, and management of applications ✔️ Setting up continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using GitLab and GitHub Actions ✔️ Building cloud infrastructure as code with tools like Terraform/OpenTofu, specializing in AWS (EKS, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, Cognito, IAM, S3, RDS, DynamoDB) and GCP (CloudRun, GKE) ✔️ Strong skills in programming, refactoring, and debugging

Other Strengths: ✔️ Experienced in remote work with agile teams ✔️ Independent problem solver with a proactive attitude ✔️ Enjoy writing clean, testable, and efficient code ✔️ Passionate self-learner, curious about building new ideas and businesses Designed AI agent applications using RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and LLM chains to extract data and populate the data layer ✔️ Built dataflows using N8N to integrate external public data and transform it into relational database formats ✔️ Fluent English speaker and communicator comfortable using English daily

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