Shipping Production Software End to End
Senior Software Engineer with 4+ years delivering production systems across backend, mobile, web, cloud, and AI — including integrating Daon IdentityX into a live biometric identification platform deployed across 20 BCI branches.
About Me
Software Engineer with 4+ years of experience building and delivering production software across backend, mobile, web, cloud, AI, and enterprise environments. Sole engineer at a software-solutions company, owning architecture and end-to-end delivery across application development, API design, third-party integrations, cloud infrastructure, testing, deployment, and production support. Experienced with Python, Java, TypeScript, React, React Native, PostgreSQL, Redis, Google Cloud, distributed systems, and AI/ML applications.
Cloud-Native Backend Delivery
Designing and shipping production backend services on Google Cloud — Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud Scheduler — with Docker, CI/CD, and REST APIs handling real enterprise workloads.
Enterprise Integrations
Integrating mission-critical identity and biometric systems — including Daon IdentityX for document verification, liveness detection, face recognition, and SSO — into production platforms serving financial institutions.
Full-Stack & Mobile Engineering
Owning end-to-end delivery across API design, Python backends, React web apps, and React Native mobile applications — from architecture through production support.
Employment History
My professional journey building intelligent systems and robust applications.
Software Engineer
Jun 2025 - Present- Own architecture and end-to-end delivery as the sole engineer across Python backends, Android, AI applications, cloud infrastructure, integrations, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Lead the Android application for a production biometric identification platform deployed across 20 BCI branches, integrating Daon IdentityX for document verification, selfie matching, biometric capture, liveness, face recognition, and QR workflows
- Designed and implemented the integration between BCI's CAS-based SSO and IdentityX, enabling authentication through existing enterprise identity infrastructure without requiring Active Directory.
- Built and shipped 3 production Python backend services with Flask and REST APIs on Google Cloud, supporting authentication, document processing, messaging, and enterprise workflows.
- Designed asynchronous, event-driven workflows with Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Scheduler, including scheduled ingestion pipelines for legal documents.
- Architected and delivered an AI-powered legal research platform used by 68 users, owning the Flask backend, React application, and Vertex AI RAG architecture.
- Built ingestion and retrieval pipelines for ~1,000 legal documents and automated daily legal-gazette ingestion, reducing research workflows that could take up to a day to minutes.
- Develop and integrate Java-based services and Android applications with biometric identity and authentication platforms.
- Added Redis caching and cloud-native processing to improve backend responsiveness; production services handle 100+ requests/day
- Implement and maintain microservices responsible for integrating mobile applications, biometric SDKs, backend services, and enterprise systems.
- Support client implementations by troubleshooting integration issues, customizing solutions, and assisting with deployment and production support.
- Work with enterprise and banking-related clients, including BCI-related biometric identity solutions.
- stablished containerized CI/CD with Docker and GitHub Actions for production deployments to Google Cloud Run; collaborate directly with enterprise stakeholders from requirements through production support.
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Apr 2024 - Feb 2025- Collaborated with 15+ clients to deliver AI-powered features and custom ML models, integrating generative AI services and production ML pipelines into existing applications.
- Designed and implemented Flask-based APIs to expose machine learning models and AI capabilities, enabling seamless integration with customer applications.
- Developed a machine-learning recommendation system that improved user engagement and content discovery for a key client.
- Designed Flask APIs that exposed ML models and AI capabilities through maintainable backend interfaces, enabling existing applications to consume AI functionality.
- Integrated Gemini-based generative AI capabilities into diverse customer products, enhancing application functionality with advanced language understanding and content generation.
- Delivered end-to-end machine learning projects including data processing, model training, API development, testing, debugging, and deployment into production environments.
- Provided technical consultation and guidance to clients on AI strategy, model selection, and integration best practices, ensuring successful adoption of AI-driven features.
Mobile Application Developer
Jun 2024 - Nov 2024- Mobile App Development: Writing and reviewing code to create mobile applications using React Native, ensuring they are efficient, functional, and high quality.
- Software Architecture: Designing the application architecture, choosing best practices and standards to ensure scalability, performance, and maintenance.
- API Integration: Working on integrating APIs, artificial intelligence, and external services, ensuring that applications can communicate correctly with other parts of the digital platform.
- Problem Solving: Identifying and resolving technical issues that arise during development, using debugging and testing to ensure application functionality.
- Continuous Improvement: Suggesting improvements and optimizations for existing code, always seeking to increase the efficiency and quality of the application.
- Mentoring and Training: Providing guidance and support to other developers on the team, helping them solve problems and improve their skills.
- Documentation: Maintaining clear and detailed documentation of code and development processes to facilitate future maintenance and scalability.
- Technological Update: Staying updated with the latest trends and advancements in React Native technology and mobile development in general, to ensure the platform uses the best practices and tools available.
- Testing and Quality: Implementing unit and functional tests to ensure the application is robust and bug-free before release.
Software Developer
May 2023 - Feb 2024- Built production backend and web applications with Python, designing REST APIs, backend services, data-processing workflows, and third-party integrations for business and enterprise use cases.
- Owned features through development, testing, debugging, maintenance, and production delivery across the software lifecycle.
Frontend Developer
Apr 2022 - Mar 2023- Developed, tested, and maintained production-quality web applications using modern software engineering practices.
- Built responsive frontend applications using JavaScript and React.
- Designed software components with a focus on scalability, maintainability, and performance.
- Integrated payment APIs and external services into web applications.
- Collaborated with designers and developers to deliver a new e-commerce platform, contributing to a 25% increase in online sales.
- Implemented responsive user interfaces that contributed to a 20% increase in user engagement and a 15% reduction in bounce rates.
- Used Git for source control and collaborative software development.
- Investigated and resolved application issues through debugging, testing, and continuous code improvement.
Featured Work
Deploying state-of-the-art AI systems into real-world applications.
Voya
An urban mobility and ride-hailing platform featuring an offline-resilient architecture, powered by a Flask backend and React Native (Expo) mobile applications.
IdentityX Integration
A document validation platform for financial services, featuring advanced injection attack prevention and photo substitution detection.
Enterprise Agentic Workflows
Development of intelligent, agentic AI systems integrated into business dashboards and automated workflows.
Let's Connect
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