Build and maintain metadata capture, transformation, and delivery pipelines for a data management platform. Develop backend services with Python, Java, and Node.js; integrate relational databases and REST APIs; implement Terraform infrastructure; and support GitLab CI/CD. Optimize distributed systems for performance, reliability, scalability, and secure asynchronous processing. Write automated tests, troubleshoot services using operational metrics, and contribute to AI/ML metadata pipelines, search, data lake, and LLM-powered initiatives.