Design, build, and operate scalable distributed backend services (Node.js/TypeScript, Python/FastAPI) using event-driven patterns. Ship end-to-end features including frontend when needed, integrate LLMs reliably, improve CI/CD and developer tooling, lead architecture and mentor engineers, and ensure system reliability, observability, and scalability on Kubernetes/AWS.

Lead design, build, and operate scalable, event-driven backend services (Node.js/TypeScript, Python). Ship end-to-end product features including frontend work, integrate LLMs reliably, improve CI/CD and developer tooling, drive system reliability, and mentor engineers while making architectural decisions.

Design, build, and operate scalable backend microservices (Node.js/TypeScript, Python/FastAPI) using event-driven patterns (Kafka) on AWS. Ship end-to-end product features including LLM integrations, improve CI/CD and developer tooling, lead architecture and mentor engineers, and drive reliability, observability, and automation for a growing platform.