Principal Engineer with 9 years of experience building production-grade APIs and cloud-native platforms. Most recently helped launch a new AI-based product in just 15 days at VR Smart Guide, designing the backend with FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and cloud services in GCP . Strong focus on developer experience, system quality, and delivery velocity.
Past roles include leading backend engineering at a fintech where I introduced BDD practices and improved test coverage and delivery predictability across the team. I write clean, testable, async Python code with CI/CD and observability baked in. Comfortable mentoring, reviewing, and designing scalable systems from scratch or improving existing ones.
Looking to join a small team with strong product focus, preferably building AI-native or automation-driven platforms. Open to full-time, contract, or early-stage founder-level opportunities.