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

• GitHub
• GitLab
• LinkedIn