I build backend systems and the infrastructure under them. Fast, secure, boring to operate.
5+ years on production systems: backend services, the AWS underneath them, and the CI/CD and observability in between. Lately RAG and LLM systems on the same foundations. I travel whenever the work allows.
01 / Work
Things I designed, shipped, and still run, mostly on infrastructure I own end to end.
A minimalist, self-hosted password manager with client-side encryption, built to replace the insecure habit of keeping secrets in WhatsApp or Telegram saved messages. The server never sees a plaintext secret. Open source.
Conversational product discovery on a FastAPI and LangGraph backend. Semantic search over vector embeddings resolves intent rather than keywords, with responses streamed over SSE and cart and conversation state persisted.
Sole maintainer for a year of the AICP custom ROM, adapting an AOSP-based build to run cleanly on device hardware: compiling official community releases, fixing camera and RIL bugs, and maintaining the device tree, kernel and vendor repositories.
Telegram bot that mirrors direct download links and video from a thousand-plus sources into Google Drive, with audio extraction from YouTube. My most-used open source work, at 50 stars.
02 / Experience
Five years building backend services and the infrastructure under them. The through-line is reliability: clear architecture, automation by default, and systems that stay predictable as traffic and teams change.
Mar 2024 - Present
Own the backend services and the AWS infrastructure they run on, from data model through deploy pipeline. Led the migration of applications off EC2 instances onto a containerised architecture on Docker and ECS Fargate, cutting operational overhead by up to 40%, and work across networking and cloud infrastructure to keep the platform predictable as it grows.
May 2023 - Mar 2024
Led backend development and DevOps for a healthcare platform built on Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS and React, backed by RDS and running on ECS. Automated deployment and monitoring through GitHub Actions so releases became routine instead of hand-run events.
Jan 2022 - May 2023
Built and shipped backend services in NestJS across client projects, working close to the Linux infrastructure they ran on.
Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
First engineering role, working across JavaScript and Selenium test automation.
03 / About
My favourite way to spend a day is driving into the mountains and watching the sun set from somewhere high. No itinerary, nothing planned past that.
Travelling is where I feel most alive. I want to see the whole world eventually, to stand in every kind of landscape and find out what it is meant to make you feel.
The rest of the time I am taking something apart to see how it works. A year maintaining a custom Android ROM, servers I still run myself. Life is a DIY project.
5 countries·a million memories, still counting
04 / Contact
Always interested in a good problem: a collaboration, a side project, something you are just starting. Tell me about it.