Principal Backend Architect and Senior Full Stack Engineer with over 9 years of experience designing scalable backend platforms, event-driven systems, and financial-grade web applications. Strong background in system design, RESTful and GraphQL APIs, event-driven architecture, and cloud-native infrastructure on Amazon Web Services. Experienced in defining technical roadmaps, recommending technology stacks, and architecting high-scale platforms with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, and RabbitMQ. Built social-style feeds, search systems, and AI-powered workflows integrating semantic search and classification services. Adept at translating product vision into deterministic, transparent architectures with clear development phases, engineering estimates, and team structure recommendations.