Meša – Golang, Kubernetes, AI
Meša is a Senior Back-end Developer with deep expertise in Golang, proven through projects in healthcare, telecom, and logistics. He has contributed to both startups and a Fortune 50 client. Throughout his career, he has collaborated directly with stakeholders and led teams.
In his recent project, Meša built LLM orchestration pipelines with Promptflow and LangGraph, integrating OpenAI and Hugging Face models into scalable FastAPI back-ends to power automated support and diagnostics workflows.
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Team Lead & Senior Back-end Developer
It's an AI chatbot platform designed for internal use by the company's support for analysis, troubleshooting, and debugging of tickets, logs, and alerts.
- Led end-to-end development of a production LLM-powered support assistant for a Fortune 50 telecom client, covering architecture, implementation, deployment, and ongoing optimization.
- Designed and implemented LLM orchestration pipelines using Promptflow and LangGraph, enabling ticket classification, device diagnostics, and automated customer support workflows.
- Built and maintained a scalable AI backend with FastAPI and REST APIs, integrating OpenAI and Hugging Face models, including local model deployment for specific inference use cases.
- Architected the data layer using PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch to support structured data storage, semantic search, and high-volume log retrieval for support operations.
- Deployed and operated the system on Azure with full CI/CD automation via Azure DevOps, ensuring reliable, repeatable production releases.
- Delivered full-stack ownership, contributing across back-end services, AI pipelines, front-end visualization (React), data ingestion, and observability.
- Led architectural refactors to improve performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability of a live, business-critical system.
- Collaborated directly with stakeholders while operating with high autonomy, translating ambiguous business requirements into production-ready AI solutions.
Senior Back-end Developer
It's a grocery delivery service.
- Led the modernization of back-end systems by migrating a large Java/Kotlin microservices ecosystem to Go, delivering significantly faster execution, ~10× lower memory usage, and substantially improved CPU utilization.
- Designed and optimized high-performance Go APIs, resulting in major reductions in response latency and a measurable improvement in end-user experience.
- Implemented a centralized DataDog logging and observability framework across 54 Go services, dramatically improving debugging efficiency and system transparency in production.
- Built a Brazilian taxation middleware service in Go, enabling compliant tax processing and seamless integration with downstream systems.
- Architected an event-driven backend using GCP Pub/Sub to support reliable, scalable processing of taxation and financial events.
- Leveraged GCP Cloud Storage and Cloud Functions to enhance system scalability, resilience, and operational efficiency in a distributed microservices environment.
Team Lead & Senior Back-end developer
It's an enterprise-grade telemedicine platform that serves patients via mobile apps and doctors via the web, supporting appointment scheduling, medical questionnaires, live consultations, and healthcare data workflows.
- Designed and maintained high-performance Go back-end services and APIs, achieving ~30% reduction in response times across patient and doctor-facing workflows.
- Built scalable AWS-based infrastructure using Lambda, S3, Cognito, SNS, SES, and SQS, increasing overall system capacity by ~40%.
- Optimized a large PostgreSQL database with minimal ORM usage, reducing query execution times by ~25% and improving reliability under load.
- Implemented back-end workflows for doctor scheduling, medical questionnaires, and real-time consultations, supporting both mobile and browser-based clients.
- Contributed to FHIR-based healthcare data flows, ETLs, and data scraping pipelines to support interoperability and downstream clinical systems.
- Collaborated with product, front-end, and infrastructure teams to design fault-tolerant AWS architectures, resulting in ~50% higher system stability and ~20% reduction in downtime.
- Operated within HIPAA-compliant constraints, ensuring secure handling of sensitive healthcare data and access control across services.
Senior Back-end Developer
It's a cloud-native, real-time construction cost estimating platform that helps builders and contractors generate accurate cost estimates, bids, and proposals using live cost data and scalable back-end services.
- Built and optimized RESTful APIs and microservices in Go, reducing average API response times by ~20% compared to the previous implementation and improving overall system responsiveness.
- Designed and delivered back-end features with cross-functional teams, enhancing core user flows and significantly elevating end-user experience and engagement metrics.
- Utilized AWS services to improve application performance and reliability, enabling the platform to handle increased load with minimal operational overhead.
- Led development of key back-end services that contributed to a 15% increase in user engagement through optimized data retrieval and more efficient processing of construction estimates.
- Implemented containerized deployments with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and Tilt, ensuring scalable orchestration and reliable releases across environments.
- Worked with GraphQL and PostgreSQL to support flexible queries and efficient structured data access, facilitating responsive and extensible APIs.
- Integrated third-party systems such as Salesforce and maintained robust scripting support via Shell/Bash for operational tooling and automation.