Lead Backend Engineer
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PerplexMay 2025 - present
Leading backend architecture and development for a DeFi on-chain trading platform.
Key Achievements:
- Architecting high-performance trading systems in Go handling real-time price feeds and order execution
- Building scalable API infrastructure for DeFi trading operations across multiple blockchain networks
- Implementing robust on-chain data ingestion pipelines processing millions of transactions daily
- Developing smart contract interaction layers for automated trading strategies and liquidity provision
- Establishing system architecture patterns for high-availability financial infrastructure
- Collaborating with protocol teams to deliver end-to-end trading features and risk management systems
Solution Architect
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SkilldAugust 2021 - April 2025
Designed and implemented scalable backend systems and cloud-native solutions with focus on distributed architectures.
Key Achievements:
- Architected and developed high-performance microservices in Go using domain-driven design principles
- Built event-driven backend systems using Apache Kafka and NATS, processing millions of messages daily
- Designed and maintained multi-cluster Kubernetes infrastructure supporting 50+ microservices
- Implemented comprehensive API architectures with REST and gRPC services achieving 99.9% uptime
- Developed stream processing pipelines using Apache Spark for real-time data analytics and transformation
- Built monitoring and observability systems using Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing
- Established database optimization strategies with PostgreSQL and Redis, reducing query times by 60%
- Provisioned and managed cloud infrastructure using Terraform on Digital Ocean and OVH
- Implemented GitOps workflows using ArgoCD for automated deployments and configuration management
- Built comprehensive CI/CD pipelines reducing deployment time from hours to minutes
- Implemented SSO integration and security hardening practices for production systems
Blockchain Engineer
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ChainsAtlasMarch 2024 - April 2025
Specialized in blockchain backend development and cross-chain protocol implementation.
Key Projects:
- Architected and implemented multi-chain bridge protocols in Go connecting EVM-compatible chains with XRPL
- Developed smart contracts in Solidity and deployed across multiple EVM blockchains
- Built comprehensive backend systems for smart contract interactions, including automated deployment pipelines
- Implemented cryptographic validation systems for cross-chain asset transfers and multi-signature operations
- Designed blockchain-agnostic APIs enabling seamless protocol deployment across multiple networks
- Built robust transaction processing engines with advanced retry mechanisms and comprehensive error handling
- Developed real-time blockchain monitoring systems with alerting for transaction failures and network issues
- Contributed to RWAFi protocol development, building smart contracts in Solidity for institutional-grade real-world asset infrastructure that bridges DeFi liquidity with traditional finance security
- Worked on blockchain wallet extension development, adding EVM-based blockchain support to enhance multi-chain wallet functionality and cross-chain asset management
- Contributed to building a prototype of an agentic blockchain from scratch, implementing autonomous agent consensus mechanisms and smart contract execution for AI-driven blockchain operations
Developed scalable data ingestion and processing systems.
Achievements:
- Developed scalable data ingestion pipeline using Python/Flask and PostgreSQL
- Implemented containerized microservices using Docker Compose and Kubernetes
- Created automated testing and deployment pipeline using GitHub Actions
- Designed real-time metrics collection system
