Backends that stay up. AI that ships.
Senior backend engineer — four years of distributed systems, AI integration and multi-cloud infrastructure across SaxeCap, DelightChat and Deloitte. Available for consulting engagements — and open to the right full-time seat.
At a glance
Backend architecture, AI integration (RAG, agents), cloud-cost optimisation, reliability & monitoring. Scoped engagements with clear outcomes.
Start a project →Open to senior IC roles on distributed-systems or AI-infrastructure teams. Remote-first and async-friendly, four years across startup and enterprise.
See experience →2018 – 2022
Selected work
Rebuilt scheduling from scratch — cut server memory 75%+ and dodged a fleet-wide instance upgrade, saving ~15% of infra cost.
RAG-based support agent (15k queries/mo) plus transformation tools (50k+/mo) — language-agnostic, and $50k in new ARR.
Gateway integrations and COD-to-prepaid automation that converted $20M+ of at-risk orders for merchants.
Built from an idea to hundreds of tracked metrics with pre-emptive Slack alerts — major outages down to near zero.
Projects
A pocket fuel & service diary — mileage, cost per km and service reminders, plus scanning handwritten log pages with vision AI. Data stays in your browser.
Interactive maze solver that visualises BFS, DFS, Dijkstra and A* live as they search the grid.
End-to-end encrypted chat application with authenticated key exchange over raw sockets.
Graph-ranking engine parallelised on GPU — a 12× speedup over the serial baseline.
Experience
Writing
Have a system that needs to scale — or a team that needs a senior backend hand?
Scoped consulting engagements are my main track — full-time conversations welcome too.