◷ BACKEND ENGINEER RESUME — 2026

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Senior backend engineer with X years across [sector] (e.g. fintech / health / e-commerce). Owned [system] handling [scale]. Mentored [N] engineers.

Backend engineer specialising in distributed systems on AWS. Shipped [product] processing [volume] across [N markets]. Strong on reliability and cost.

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01Architected event-driven payments pipeline (Kafka, 14k events/sec) cutting reconciliation lag from 4h to 90s.
02Cut p99 latency 62% (380ms → 145ms) by rewriting the auth path in Go and removing N+1 queries.
03Owned AWS spend of $480k/yr; reduced 28% via spot fleet, Savings Plans, and right-sizing.
04Migrated monolith to 7-service architecture (gRPC, Kubernetes) with zero customer-visible downtime.
05Shipped feature flag rollout system; reduced incident MTTR from 47min to 9min across 3 quarters.
06Mentored 4 engineers; 2 promoted to senior within 14 months. Ran weekly system-design clinic.
07On-call rotation lead for 18 months across a 9-engineer team; drove uptime from 99.5% → 99.99%.
08Built reconciliation pipeline processing 8M daily transactions for M-Pesa integration partners.
09Designed multi-region failover for the checkout path; tested with monthly GameDay exercises.
10Reduced cold-start latency 73% on critical Lambda functions via SnapStart + container reuse.