Backend Developer and Applied ML Engineer with 5 years of experience architecting resilient, highthroughput distributed systems and event-driven architectures with Python, FastAPI, and Django. Proven track record of designing and scaling mission-critical platforms across fintech/KYC compliance, security orchestration (SOAR), and enterprise commerce. Bridges core systems engineering with applied AI, actively building and open-sourcing domain LLMs, foundational NLP datasets, and end-to-end speech processing pipelines.
Languages: Python, SQL
Backend & APIs: FastAPI, Django, REST API design, GraphQL (Strawberry), Pydantic, asynchronous/concurrent programming (AsyncIO)
Data & Messaging: PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Celery, SQLAlchemy
Infra & DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, Digital Ocean, Git
ML: Hugging Face, LLM Fine-tuning (QLoRA, PEFT), Mergekit, SpeechBrain, torchaudio, scikit-learn, DeepFilterNet, ASR/TTS