Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · Harrow, England, United Kingdom · Remote

• Spearheaded end-to-end backend development and cloud-native deployment of three major applications: Ophiz, IssueCop, and Targafy.
• Reduced EC2 and compute costs by 40% through dynamic auto-scaling, AWS Fargate Spot Instances, and workload-based resource optimization using ECS, EC2, and Lambda.
• Engineered scalable REST APIs for user management, RBAC, real-time broadcast, and feedback modules using Node.js and Express.js.
• Boosted performance with advanced Redis caching, achieving 70% faster API responses and cutting database load by 45%.
• Integrated real-time communication features using Socket.io and Firebase, increasing user engagement by 40%.
• Designed and automated CI/CD pipelines with Docker and GitHub Actions, reducing deployment time by 70% and streamlining release cycles.
• Ensured system reliability and uptime by implementing load balancing and auto-healing architecture.
• Enforced robust cloud IAM security policies for fine-grained access control and enhanced platform security.