Backend & APIs
Go, Java, Spring Boot, REST, GraphQL, webhooks, service boundaries, and product-facing APIs.
About me
Backend systems, reliability, and product-focused engineering
I’m a backend and distributed systems engineer with 9+ years of experience building event-driven platforms, resilient APIs, and production systems in Go and Java.
My work focuses on systems that need to behave well under real production pressure: reliability, observability, delivery speed, and clean architectural boundaries. I’ve worked across messaging infrastructure, B2B SaaS platforms, orchestration-heavy workflows, and high-scale product environments.
I care about practical engineering over theory for its own sake, choosing tradeoffs deliberately, keeping systems operable, and helping teams ship with clarity.
Expertise pillars
Core areas I work in most often
Distributed Systems
Kafka, RabbitMQ, Debezium CDC, idempotency, retries, DLQs, and event-driven design.
Workflow & Orchestration
Temporal workflows, sagas, retries, compensations, and long-running background processes.
Cloud & Infrastructure
Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, and production deployments on AWS and DigitalOcean.
Data Systems
PostgreSQL, Redis, Cassandra, OpenSearch, object storage, and performance-conscious data access.
Observability & Reliability
Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Sentry, alerting, and production troubleshooting.
Skills matrix
Technologies I use most often
Languages
GoJavaSQLBash
Frameworks
Spring BootFiber
Datastores
PostgreSQLRedisCassandraOpenSearchMinIO / S3
Messaging
KafkaRabbitMQDebezium CDC
Orchestration
TemporalKubernetesDocker
Observability
GrafanaPrometheusOpenTelemetrySentry
AI / Vector
WeaviateOpenAI APIMistralAI API
Developer Productivity
TestcontainersWireMockGitLab CIGithub Actions
Platforms
Stripe
Cloud
AWSDigitalOceanGCP
Career timeline
Selected milestones and role progression
- 2026Senior Software Engineer — Veriff Building backend systems for Veriff’s identity verification platform, focusing on reliability, scalability, and distributed service architecture supporting global verification workflows.
- 2023Lead Software Engineer — Zulzi Ondemand Pty Ltd. Leading the architecture and development of an event-driven hospitality platform, building scalable microservices and workflow orchestration to support ordering, delivery, and operational systems.
- 2021Senior Software Engineer — Twilio Inc. Contributed to modernization of Twilio’s messaging platform, improving reliability and developer productivity across a business-critical service. Improved observability and automated testing workflows, reducing engineering overhead by ~5% and service health metrics by ~20%.
- 2020Founder — Shopemaa LLC Founded Shopemaa, building an API-first headless commerce platform focused on scalable backend architecture and modular e-commerce infrastructure.
- 2017Software Engineer — Pathao Inc. Built backend services for Pathao’s mobility platform, designing scalable Go-based systems running on container infrastructure. Improved supply service latency by ~10% and implemented a real-time notification system serving 1M+ users.
- 2016Software Engineer — East West Media Group (P1) Extended MongooseIM with custom Erlang features for a messaging platform, reducing reliance on third-party services and saving roughly $4K/month in infrastructure costs.
Work with me
Consulting and engineering work
For consulting, architecture, and delivery work
My main consulting and engineering studio is SuberaHQ, where I work with teams on backend systems, architecture reviews, event-driven systems, reliability, and production delivery.