Architecting high-throughput backend systems that scale.
Backend engineer with 4+ years of production experience across Go and Python. I currently engineer solar forecasting pipelines at Open Climate Fix — building the mission-critical systems that predict how much power the grid generates from the sun, and keeping predictions flowing seamlessly even when satellite feeds cut out.
Backend engineering across Go, Python, and distributed systems.
Reduced Airflow DAG runtimes via gRPC Data Platform migration.
Drop in payout errors via Go microservices with AWS SQS retries.
Public contributions across 10 Open Climate Fix repositories.
Production Experience
Delivering resilient distributed systems, ML pipelines, and high-concurrency microservices.
Backend Development Engineer
ActiveLead backend architecture for multi-national solar forecast blending pipelines, ingesting satellite feeds and ML predictions to calculate solar generation across UK, India, and EU grids.
- Architect and maintain the solar forecast blending service end-to-end across three country deployments, blending day-ahead and 6-hour models with automated failover during satellite telemetry dropouts.
- Refactored the blending engine to be dynamically driven by a centralized BlendConfig rather than hardcoded per-country forks, enabling instantaneous multi-region rollouts via config commits.
- Built Hexatron, an internal operational management portal in Go that triggers Airflow DAGs and surfaces live pipeline execution logs to engineers in real time.
- Migrated 8 forecasting applications onto the internal gRPC Data Platform, cutting data-saving costs 30% by shortening Airflow DAG runtimes.
- Overhauled API authorization to dp-sdk v0.32.0, moving permissions from per-site access to multi-tenant organization scope using HubSpot company metadata in JWT claims.
- Engineered an interactive Streamlit data-science console for machine learning researchers to visualize multi-model forecast divergence.
- Authored 68+ merged pull requests across 10 open-source repositories in the Open Climate Fix org (solar-consumer, quartz-api, pv-site-api, india-forecast-app, uk-pv-forecast-blend, pv-site-production).
Software Engineer (Backend)
Architected core diagnostic logistics and financial transaction pipelines using Go and Python, ensuring high reliability for time-critical medical diagnostics.
- Engineered a decoupled payout architecture in Go backed by AWS SQS and background worker pools, slashing partner payout failure rates by 98% with automated idempotent retries.
- Implemented fine-grained JWT RBAC for partner invoice systems, securing sensitive healthcare billing records across laboratory franchises.
- Built an automated monthly invoicing engine with pre-settlement 'dry run' validation in Go, cutting invoice errors 95%.
- Migrated high-throughput order and sample lookup services from AWS RDS to Elasticsearch, dropping search query latency by 96% while removing database CPU spikes.
- Designed asynchronous task queues and messaging topologies using RabbitMQ, Redis, and AWS SQS for sample collection routing.
Software Engineer Professional
Built high-throughput communication microservices and fault-tolerant conversational bot engines processing thousands of requests per second.
- Built the FastAPI chatbot service to handle thousands of requests per second, with session state cached in Redis ElastiCache, cutting latency 33% from 1.5s to under 1s.
- Engineered real-time log ingestion microservices with RabbitMQ streaming to MongoDB, moving writes off the request path to cut request latency 20%.
- Optimized MongoDB data schemas and implemented database sharding, improving complex document lookup speeds by 18%.
- Owned the chatbot availability redesign, choosing an active-active multi-region AWS topology with cross-region replication and failover to end single-region downtime.
- Built an intelligent request retry layer that rescued 5% of peak-traffic dropped webhook payloads.
Software Engineer Intern
- Built 4 full-stack applications utilizing the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js) for internal customer support automation.
- Optimized relational and document database query execution plans, delivering a 20% latency reduction.
- Integrated third-party REST APIs and automated cloud deployments, improving test pipeline reliability by 30%.
Engineering Deep Dives
The work I am best at: root-causing production bottlenecks, fixing subtle distributed systems edge cases, and hardening data pipelines.
Generation Data Vanishing on Pipeline Re-runs
Deduplication filtered on timestamp alone. Once national-level aggregate solar data was saved for a given timestamp, every regional GSP (Grid Supply Point) sharing that timestamp was silently dropped — zero errors thrown, but missing regional data downstream.
Corrected the deduplication filter so regional GSPs are tracked independently of the national aggregate at the same timestamp, and pinned the fix with a regression test.
- Single-field deduplication is a silent data loss trap — always use composite keys when records share natural dimensions.
- Absence of errors doesn't mean correctness; added downstream data-count regression tests to catch shape mismatches.
- Pinned the fix with an automated regression suite that validates row counts per location after every pipeline run.
Stack & Production Tooling
Languages, frameworks, databases, and cloud infrastructure I have shipped to production.
Go
Python
Data & Messaging
Cloud & Infrastructure
Get in Touch
Open to backend engineering roles, distributed systems consulting, and technical conversations.