🚀 Senior Software Engineer | Backend & Platform Specialist | Cloud & Automation

I design and deliver production-grade backend systems with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, and business impact. I’ve led and contributed to distributed teams, owned systems end‑to‑end, and shipped solutions used in real-world, high-stakes environments.

• 💼 ~6 years of professional experience delivering backend and platform systems
• 🌍 Comfortable working with distributed teams and international stakeholders
• 🧩 Strong expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kafka
• ☁️ Proven experience deploying, operating, and scaling systems on AWS
• 🔐 Deep hands-on experience with OAuth, payments, and third‑party integrations
• 👥 Technical leadership: code reviews, architecture decisions, and mentoring

• Designed and trained custom deep learning models for video classification and forgery detection
• Built end-to-end ML pipelines: data preprocessing, training, evaluation, and inference
• Integrated third-party AI models & APIs (OpenAI, Gemini, and similar LLM platforms)
• Applied AI for content analysis, data enrichment, automation, and decision support
• Experience balancing model accuracy, latency, and cost in production environments

• Designed and maintained REST APIs for high-traffic products
• Led emergency backend migrations with zero business downtime
• Implemented database backup, migration, and recovery strategies
• Integrated external services (payments, social auth, partner APIs)

Languages

JavaScript · TypeScript · Python · PHP · SQL

Backend & Platforms

Node.js · NestJS · Express · PostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB · Kafka

Cloud & DevOps

AWS · Docker · Kubernetes · CI/CD · Linux

Integrations & Automation

OAuth · Puppeteer · Third‑party APIs · Payments

• Design for scale, not demos
• Production reliability over clever abstractions
• Clear ownership and long-term maintainability
• Business-aware engineering decisions

• 💼 GitHub: @talibackend
• 🔗 LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/talibackend
• ✍🏽 Blog: https://dev.to/talibackend
• 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@talibackend JavaScript APIs, backend engineering, automation, and real-world system design

⭐ Open to collaborating on backend, platform, and automation-heavy systems.

“Engineering is not just about code — it’s about decisions.”