Senior Backend Engineer
CurrentIQ Labs · Product and AI engineering company
Real-time fleet tracking, AI/RAG, payments, billing and observability across the group.
- Own backend architecture across the group as its only senior backend engineer; lead architecture reviews and system design sessions, and mentor engineers through code review.
- Built Rega, a real-time platform for bus and taxi fleets with live vehicle tracking and in-app chat, sustaining 5,000+ concurrent WebSocket connections at <200ms P95 latency with zero data loss under peak load.
- Built an internal AI assistant (RAG) on Milvus with multilingual BGE-M3 embeddings, cross-encoder re-ranking and MCP tool integration, cutting query latency from 2s to under 400ms and streaming answers over SSE.
- Integrated the HyperPay and Areeba payment gateways and led the PCI DSS compliance work.
- Designed and demonstrated a Go replacement for the ISP billing platform (PostgreSQL/Citus, Patroni failover, FreeRADIUS behind HAProxy), removing the single-primary MySQL and single-RADIUS points of failure; the demo runs against a live NAS server and devices.
- Built a ClickHouse log pipeline ingesting 240GB of logs per day.
- Introduced distributed tracing, structured logging and circuit breakers across real-time and AI services, reducing peak-traffic incidents.