Profile
Senior Backend Engineer and System Designer with 14+ years building high-performance, distributed SaaS systems across logistics, fleet management, and insurance domains. Proven at architecting REST APIs, microservices, and async processing pipelines that serve real-time production workloads. Known for owning systems end-to-end — from schema design to deployment — and for raising engineering quality through mentorship and architectural leadership.
Work Experience
- Grew from individual contributor to technical lead, taking full ownership of backend architecture and team delivery across an 8-year engagement.
- Architected core backend systems covering real-time job scheduling, route optimization, and progression tracking.
- Designed and maintained 15+ REST API endpoints with versioning strategy and backward compatibility.
- Eliminated production bottlenecks via Redis caching and query optimisation — improved response times significantly under peak load.
- Built async job processing pipelines (queue-based and cron-scheduled) fully decoupled from the request lifecycle.
- Implemented JWT, RBAC, 2FA/MFA — zero reported auth breaches during tenure.
- Led a team of engineers: coding standards, code reviews, architectural decisions.
- Designed and built REST APIs and relational database architectures for multi-workflow business applications using PHP (CodeIgniter).
- Delivered client-facing systems end-to-end, managing requirements, development, and deployment.
- Built backend modules and third-party API integrations; improved system reliability through refactoring and performance optimisation.
- Developed backend features, optimised database queries, contributed across the full development lifecycle.
Projects
Self Project
Designed and launched a production SaaS platform solo — estimation engine, versioned content system, admin panel, blog, and automated publishing workflows. Engineered an AI-powered content generation agent (PHP + REST API + async job queue) decoupled from the request lifecycle.
Self Project
Architecting a multi-tenant insurance platform with isolated role-based data access, full policy lifecycle state machine, and audit-ready document storage. Includes AI-assisted data extraction and automated email/SMS renewal triggers.