Sr. Software Engineer & Data Engineer

Saber builds data platforms and AI systems that hold up at scale.

Architecting event-driven data platforms and agentic AI systems at scale. Based remote / open to relocation, currently shipping enterprise event-driven infrastructure at American Express - AMEX.

  • Data Engineering
  • Event-Driven Architecture
  • GCP & AWS
  • LLM / Agentic AI
  • Full-Stack Systems
0+Years of experience
0+Production Airflow DAGs managed
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0KConcurrent users supported
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Professional Summary

Ten years turning messy data problems into dependable systems

Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing scalable, production-grade systems, specializing in Data Engineering, cloud-native platforms, and AI infrastructure. Experienced in building event-driven data pipelines, petabyte-scale ETL workflows on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and AWS, and high-performance backend services. Passionate about developing LLM-powered applications, agentic AI systems, and developer platforms that improve engineering productivity. Proven track record delivering mission-critical solutions across fintech, energy, and research through scalable architecture, automation, and performance optimization.

  • Enterprise-scale data platforms

    Designed and operated petabyte-scale ETL on GCP (Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Composer/Airflow, BigQuery...) processing ~100 TB/day at 99.9% pipeline SLO, with cost-per-job reduced ~75% via autoscaling and slot governance.

  • Agentic & LLM-powered workflows

    Shipped production RAG and agentic pipelines on shared AI infrastructure (vector store, eval harness, guardrails) & built AI-assisted dev tooling adopted by >27 engineers, cutting review/PR cycle time ~45%.

  • Cross-industry impact

    Delivered fintech, energy, and logistics systems with exactly-once processing and idempotent retries — sustaining 145K msg/sec at p99 < 10 ms and zero data-loss incidents across 3 years in production.

Experience

A decade of shipping production systems

From enterprise-scale event-driven data infrastructure to real-time chat platforms

  1. Data Engineer · American Express (AMEX)

    Apr 2024 — Present

    Owning enterprise event-driven data infrastructure and orchestration standards for LUMI, a large-scale analytics platform serving petabyte-scale workloads.

    • Architected and deployed enterprise-scale event-driven data infrastructure on GCP, leveraging Pub/Sub for real-time message routing with dead-letter queues and idempotent replay, achieving zero data-loss and cutting end-to-end latency from hours to sub-minute resolution.
    • Established Apache Airflow as the enterprise orchestration standard on Google Cloud Composer, managing 70+ production DAGs, migrating legacy batch workflows, and eliminating scheduler bottlenecks through advanced monitoring and performance tuning.
    • Designed and implemented end-to-end ETL pipelines on Google Cloud Dataflow, processing petabyte-scale datasets and consolidating fragmented source systems into a centralized BigQuery warehouse with unified data models.
    • Built and maintained a comprehensive Jenkins-based CI/CD pipeline with automated unit and integration testing, data quality validation, code coverage enforcement, and infrastructure-as-code provisioning across the platform's service fleet.
    • Reduced GCP infrastructure costs by automating compute instance provisioning, developing custom Python tooling for high-performance data processing, and driving benchmarking and capacity planning across the platform.
    • Accelerated critical backup workflows through automation, reducing processing time by 98% (from 2 hours to under 60 seconds) via optimized pipeline design.
    • Standardized AI-assisted development workflows (GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT) across the data platform team, cutting DAG boilerplate and SQL review time and accelerating delivery.
    • Pub/Sub
    • Dataflow
    • Cloud Composer
    • Airflow
    • BigQuery
    • Spanner
    • Jenkins
    • Python
    • CI/CD
  2. Senior Software Engineer · Transit Hariechi Import & Export

    Dec 2022 — Mar 2023

    Led backend and data-visualization engineering for a high-concurrency e-commerce and logistics platform.

    • Built scalable backend infrastructure supporting 50K concurrent users with zero downtime using Python/Django, covering authentication, order processing, and payment management.
    • Developed Java-based data visualization and processing microservices for large-scale file ingestion, ensuring data integrity and efficient parallel processing across platform instances.
    • Designed RESTful APIs for inventory, cart, and order management with secure JWT/OAuth2 authentication and integrated payment gateways (Stripe & PayPal), enabling multi-method transactions.
    • Implemented real-time asynchronous task processing using Celery and Redis for order confirmation, refunds, and inventory updates, improving system responsiveness and reliability.
    • Developed an ML-powered product recommendation engine using browsing and purchase history to deliver personalized suggestions, enhancing engagement and conversion.
    • Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub CI for automated testing, building, and deployment.
    • Java
    • Python
    • Django
    • REST APIs
    • JWT/OAuth2
    • Stripe
    • PayPal
    • Celery
    • Redis
    • Jenkins
  3. Senior Software Engineer · Gazprom

    Oct 2020 — Nov 2022

    Built an end-to-end ML data platform and high-performance inventory services supporting regional warehouse operations that deliver OIL and GAS to customers across Europe.

    • Led and developed a Python-based, high-performance inventory service handling real-time stock synchronization across multiple regional warehouses, reducing inventory sync latency by 60% and preventing overselling incidents.
    • Built an end-to-end ML data platform with a Django backend supporting user authentication, multi-format file uploads (CSV, XLSX, Parquet, JSON,...etc), and automated data cleaning, filtering, and transformation.
    • Engineered a microservice-oriented architecture with Docker containerization, RESTful APIs for authentication and file processing, and Celery/Redis for asynchronous background tasks — reducing data preparation time by 12%.
    • Designed a responsive full-stack interface using HTML, CSS, JS, jQuery, and Ajax, enabling real-time data visualization with Matplotlib, Seaborn, and Plotly and immediate user feedback on uploads and processing.
    • Implemented secure data persistence using PostgreSQL/MySQL for user metadata and file information, with Django session management and dynamic template rendering.
    • Django
    • Python
    • Docker
    • PostgreSQL
    • MySQL
    • Celery
    • Redis
    • Plotly
    • Matplotlib
    • Seaborn
  4. Senior ML / Backend Engineer · ITMO

    Dec 2018 — Sep 2020

    Architected an ML-powered pipeline monitoring platform for real-time sensor-driven decision-making in energy infrastructure.

    • Architected an ML-powered pipeline monitoring platform using Flask, Python, and ML libraries (scikit-learn, TensorFlow), improving decision-making accuracy by 20% over manual sensor monitoring with real-time predictions.
    • Led platform adoption by providing comprehensive training and documentation, enabling field engineers and technicians to assess pipeline health independently.
    • Built scalable backend infrastructure with RESTful APIs, Celery/Redis for asynchronous processing, and Redis caching to handle large-scale datasets while maintaining sub-second response times.
    • Implemented a comprehensive data processing pipeline using NumPy and Pandas for feature engineering, coupled with ML models to classify pipeline conditions (water saturation vs. oil readiness) from real-time sensor data.
    • Established CI/CD infrastructure using Jenkins/GitLab CI with automated testing and deployment, containerizing the application with Docker for consistent dev-to-prod on AWS (EC2 & S3).
    • Flask
    • Python
    • scikit-learn
    • TensorFlow
    • NumPy
    • Pandas
    • Docker
    • AWS EC2
    • AWS S3
  5. Software Engineer · Transit Hariechi Import & Export

    Dec 2015 — Nov 2018

    Built a real-time chat and messaging platform with secure authentication and high-throughput infrastructure.

    • Built a real-time chat application using Flask, Flask-SocketIO, and WebSocket technology, enabling low-latency bidirectional communication with secure JWT-based authentication.
    • Designed scalable backend infrastructure with AWS RDS MySQL for message storage, Redis for session management and message brokering, and S3 for media serving — supporting high-throughput chat operations.
    • Implemented Firebase Cloud Messaging for real-time push notifications on new messages and events, enhancing engagement and in-app responsiveness.
    • Secured the platform with Cloudflare for DDoS protection and AWS CodePipeline with integrated logging and monitoring via AWS CloudWatch for proactive issue detection and optimization.
    • Flask
    • Flask-SocketIO
    • WebSocket
    • AWS RDS
    • Redis
    • S3
    • Firebase
    • Cloudflare
    • AWS CloudWatch

Featured Projects

Systems built for scale, reliability, and real outcomes

Search or filter by discipline — each project links to a deeper architecture write-up.

  • Data Platform
    2024 – Present

    Enterprise Event-Driven Data Platform

    Zero-loss, real-time event infrastructure processing enterprise data streams at sub-minute latency.

    • GCP
    • Pub/Sub
    • Dataflow
    • Cloud Composer
  • AI / LLM
    2024 – Present

    AI-Assisted Data Engineering Workflow

    Embedded LLM tooling into the data platform team's daily workflow to compress DAG development and review cycles.

    • GitHub Copilot
    • ChatGPT
    • Claude
    • SQL
  • Backend
    2022 – 2023

    High-Concurrency E-Commerce Backend

    Django backend serving 50K concurrent users with zero downtime, secure payments, and real-time inventory.

    • Python
    • Django
    • Celery
    • Redis
  • AI / LLM
    2018 – 2020

    ML-Powered Pipeline Monitoring Platform

    Real-time sensor classification platform that improved pipeline condition decisions by 20% over manual monitoring.

    • Flask
    • scikit-learn
    • TensorFlow
    • NLTK
  • Full-Stack
    2020 – 2022

    Self-Service ML Data Platform

    Django-based platform for uploading, cleaning, and visualizing multi-format datasets with real-time feedback.

    • Django
    • Docker
    • PostgreSQL
    • MySQL
  • Full-Stack
    2015 – 2018

    Real-Time Chat & Messaging Platform

    Low-latency, bidirectional chat application with push notifications and DDoS-hardened infrastructure.

    • Flask-SocketIO
    • WebSocket
    • AWS RDS
    • Redis

Technical Skills

Depth across the data & AI stack

Production technologies used to build scalable data platforms, cloud-native infrastructure, and AI-powered applications.

AI Engineering & Applied Machine Learning

Building LLM-powered applications, AI agents, retrieval systems, and applied machine learning solutions.

  • LLMs & Generative AI

    • OpenAI API
    • Claude API
    • Gemini API
    • Prompt Engineering
  • LangChain

    • AI Agents
    • Tool Calling
    • Agentic Workflows
  • RAG Pipelines

    • Vector Search
    • Document Retrieval
    • Context Engineering
    • Knowledge Bases
  • Machine Learning

    • scikit-learn
    • TensorFlow
    • PyTorch
    • Feature Engineering
  • Data Science

    • Pandas
    • NumPy
    • Data Analysis
    • Data Visualization
  • Hugging Face

    • Transformers
    • Model Inference

System Design & Distributed Systems

Designing scalable, resilient, and highly available distributed systems for enterprise-scale applications and data platforms.

  • Distributed Systems

    • Horizontal Scaling
    • Fault Tolerance
    • High Availability
    • Load Balancing
    • Distributed Computing
    • Replication
  • Scalability

    • Vertical Scaling
    • Horizontal Scaling
    • Auto Scaling
    • Capacity Planning
    • Performance Optimization
  • Event-Driven Architecture

    • Publish / Subscribe
    • Message Queues
    • Asynchronous Processing
    • Dead Letter Queues
    • Event Streaming
    • Idempotency
  • Backend Architecture

    • Microservices
    • REST APIs
    • API Gateway
    • Service Discovery
    • Service-to-Service Communication
  • Performance Engineering

    • Caching Strategies
    • Latency Optimization
    • Concurrency
    • Parallel Processing
    • Resource Optimization
    • Profiling
  • Reliability Engineering

    • Observability
    • Monitoring
    • Logging
    • Alerting
    • Disaster Recovery
    • Backup Strategies
  • System Reliability

    • Retry Strategies
    • Circuit Breaker
    • Rate Limiting
    • Timeout Handling
    • Graceful Degradation
    • Health Checks
  • Security

    • Authentication
    • Authorization
    • IAM
    • Encryption
    • Secrets Management
    • Least Privilege
  • DevOps & Delivery

    • CI/CD
    • Infrastructure as Code
    • Containerization
    • Blue-Green Deployment
    • Rolling Deployments

Data Engineering

Designing and operating enterprise-scale batch, streaming, and event-driven data platforms.

  • Apache Airflow

    • 70+ Production DAGs
    • Cloud Composer
    • Custom Operators
    • Workflow Orchestration
    • CI/CD Deployments
  • Google Cloud Dataflow

    • Apache Beam
    • Batch Processing
    • Streaming Pipelines
    • BigQuery Integration
  • Google Pub/Sub

    • Event-Driven Architecture
    • Dead Letter Queues
    • Exactly-Once Delivery
    • High-Throughput Messaging
  • Apache Beam

    • Java SDK
    • Pipeline Development
    • Data Processing
  • PySpark

    • Distributed ETL
    • Large Dataset Processing
  • Apache Kafka

    • Streaming
    • Event Processing

Cloud Platforms

Building scalable cloud-native infrastructure and production data platforms.

  • Google Cloud Platform

    • BigQuery
    • Pub/Sub
    • Dataflow
    • Cloud Composer
    • Cloud Storage
    • IAM
    • Cloud Logging
  • Amazon Web Services

    • EC2
    • S3
    • RDS
    • Redshift
  • DevOps & CI/CD

    • Jenkins
    • Git
    • Docker
    • Deployment Automation

Databases & Data Warehouses

Designing scalable, high-performance data platforms, analytical warehouses, and distributed storage systems for enterprise workloads.

  • Google BigQuery

    • Enterprise Data Warehousing
    • Partitioning & Clustering
    • Query Optimization
    • Stored Procedures
    • MERGE Operations
    • Materialized Views
    • Window Functions
    • Cost Optimization
  • SQL

    • Advanced SQL
    • CTEs
    • Recursive Queries
    • Analytical Functions
    • Execution Plan Analysis
    • Complex Joins
    • Transactions
    • Performance Tuning
  • Database Design

    • Data Modeling
    • Schema Design
    • Normalization
    • Denormalization
    • Primary & Foreign Keys
    • Referential Integrity
  • Performance Engineering

    • Index Optimization
    • Partition Strategies
    • Query Profiling
    • Resource Optimization
    • Concurrency
    • Scalability
  • PostgreSQL

    • Schema Design
    • Transactions
    • Indexing
    • Performance Tuning
    • Stored Functions
  • MongoDB

    • Document Modeling
    • Aggregation Pipeline
    • Indexing
    • Replication
  • Apache Cassandra

    • Distributed Storage
    • Partition Keys
    • Replication
    • High Availability
    • Horizontal Scaling
  • Redis

    • Caching
    • In-Memory Storage
    • Session Management
    • Performance Optimization

Programming Languages

Backend engineering, APIs, automation, and enterprise software development.

  • Python

    • Airflow
    • FastAPI
    • Flask
    • Django
    • Automation
    • Pandas
    • NumPy
  • Java

    • REST APIs
    • Apache Beam
    • Microservices
    • Backend Services
  • SQL

    • BigQuery SQL
    • Stored Procedures
    • Query Optimization
    • Window Functions
  • JavaScript / TypeScript

    • React
    • Next.js

Software Engineering

Building reliable backend systems, APIs, and production engineering platforms.

  • REST APIs

    • Backend Services
    • Microservices
    • API Design
  • Docker

    • Containerization
    • Local Development
  • Celery

    • Task Queues
    • Asynchronous Processing
  • Git

    • Version Control
    • Code Reviews
  • Jenkins

    • CI/CD Pipelines
    • Automation
  • System Design

    • Scalable Architecture
    • Distributed Systems

Certifications

Continuous, deliberate upskilling

  • Generative AI Engineering with LLMs Specialization

    IBM · 2026

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  • Apache Spark With Scala

    Udemy · 2025

  • Machine Learning

    DeepLearning.AI · 2024

  • Deep Learning

    DeepLearning.AI · 2024

Education

Academic foundation in ML/AI & Data Engineering

  • Master of Science

    Machine Learning & Data Engineering

    Sep 2020 — May 2022

  • Bachelor of Science

    Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing

    Sep 2015 — May 2018

Open Source

Side Projects

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