Senior Backend and AI Systems Engineer

A Senior Engineer with extensive experience in designing and implementing distributed systems, async infrastructure, and AI-enabled product features. Proven track record in duplicate contact detection using vector embeddings, optimizing async sync infrastructure (reducing P99 enqueue-to-dequeue from ~5s to <10ms), and building ML-powered OCR/machine translation pipelines. Comfortable owning ambiguous backend/AI feature work end-to-end, including architecture, implementation, observability, and rollout. Seeks technically deep roles focusing on async/distributed systems or AI-enabled products, preferably in startup or growth-stage companies. Proficient in TypeScript/Node, Python, Java, AWS, GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes.