Backend Engineer with Cloud Expertise

5 years of non-internship software engineering experience across a variety of backend disciplines: consumer application software development including monoliths and microservices, infrastructure development (CI/CD, alerting, platforms, pipelines, integrations, etc.), cloud systems, system design and architecture, APIs, security automation, container management, cluster management (mesos), and backend oncall for a variety of issues. 3 years of C++ in grad school, plus a mix of Python, JavaScript/Typescript, C#, Java, and a smattering of Kotlin. Other tools: GCP, AWS, Kubernetes/Docker, Jenkins, GitLab, Terraform, Tensorflow, Datadog, NewRelic, SQL, NoSQL, React, Pandas/Python data sci, various scripting languages, GenAI/LLMs, REST endpoints, etc. Guest lecturer on Containers + DevOps at University of Washington i-School. Technical writing (architectural docs, systems-related content, research papers, etc.), security standards work, commissioned tech journalism.