Ayaz – JavaScript, Node.js, Java

A marketing automation platform for the music industry, helping artists, record labels, and managers grow and monetize their fanbases through automated advertising campaigns, performance reporting, and actionable insights across digital platforms.

• Designed an event-driven microservices architecture using NATS.io to support scalable backend workflows and asynchronous platform communication.
• Built an AI assistant that answers customer questions and generates campaign reports by securely invoking backend tools against live platform data.
• Built integrations with multiple advertising and streaming platforms, including Meta, TikTok, Google, Spotify, and various other platforms.
• Architected the AWS infrastructure from scratch, including VPC, ECS, RDS, and S3, and automated CI/CD pipelines for reliable production delivery.
• Maintained no recorded application-level downtime since launch.
• Developed ETL pipelines that load advertising and streaming performance data into Snowflake for analytics, reporting, and customer-facing insights.
• Implemented fine-grained multi-tenant authorization using OpenFGA, ensuring backend services and AI agent tools only access authorized customer data.
• Owned backend delivery on a two-engineer team as the platform and user base grew.

A telecom SMS platform delivering real-time messages over carrier networks via SMPP.

• Engineered real-time SMS delivery systems with SMPP integrations for carrier-grade messaging traffic.
• Designed and managed high-availability AWS infrastructure, including VPC, EC2, RDS, and VPN networking.
• Deployed changes to live SMS infrastructure using careful release and cutover processes to minimize delivery disruption.
• Developed and maintained Java Spring Boot services alongside the core SMS delivery infrastructure.
• Supported production systems where reliability, uptime, and message throughput were business-critical.
• Delivered maintenance, infrastructure improvements, and new feature development across two separate long-term engagements.

A remote care platform that helps seniors live independently at home. Motion-triggered in-home cameras stream to trained virtual caregivers, who monitor activity, perform scheduled check-ins, dispatch help in emergencies, and generate daily activity reports that families can share with healthcare providers.

• Built the platform’s backend end to end as the sole backend engineer, taking the system from initial architecture through production operation.
• Architected the AWS infrastructure from scratch, including VPC, EC2, ECS, ALB, RDS, and VPN networking.
• Set up CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline to support reliable deployments and maintenance workflows.
• Engineered live IP camera streaming from in-home cameras using RTSP ingest over private VPN tunnels, initially delivering streams through WebRTC and later migrating to HLS when lower latency was no longer a requirement.
• Designed the streaming architecture so cameras could connect securely without requiring client-side Wi-Fi configuration.
• Built AI-driven activity analysis to automatically detect and tag monitored activity in pilot workflows alongside human caregivers.
• Designed the AI activity analysis system to help increase the number of clients each virtual caregiver could safely monitor.
• Developed backend services in Node.js and Go-based streaming services for video processing and delivery.
• Maintained approximately 99.9% platform availability, with recorded downtime primarily caused by an upstream network provider rather than application-level failures.
• Continued supporting the platform through a maintenance contract after the initial engagement, with the systems still running in production.

One of Europe’s largest banking groups. As part of a small five-person engineering team, I delivered backend integrations from technical design through production release.

• Developed Java Spring Boot microservices within an event-driven architecture.
• Built client integration services connecting internal banking platforms with external systems.
• Owned backend features from technical design through implementation, testing, and production release.
• Collaborated with business analysts, project managers, and engineering teammates to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Delivered production-grade backend services in a regulated banking environment with strong reliability and maintainability expectations.