adib
open to staff & senior backend roles
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Hi, I’m

Adib

I build the systems that don’t go down.

Backend developer focused on distributed systems, data pipelines, and developer-facing APIs. I care about latency budgets, typed contracts, and leaving the codebase better than I found it.

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6+
Years building backend
40M+
Requests / day served
99.98%
API uptime, last 12 mo
< 80ms
p95 latency at the edge

/ stack

Tools I reach for

GoRustTypeScriptNode.jsPostgreSQLRedisKafkaDockerKubernetesAWSCloudgRPCTerraform
API design

REST, gRPC, and GraphQL contracts that age well — typed, versioned, and documented before they&rsquo;re built.

Data modeling

Schemas that hold up at scale. Indexes that match the query plan. Migrations that don&rsquo;t page you at 3am.

Reliability

Backpressure, retries with jitter, circuit breakers, idempotency keys — the boring stuff that keeps things up.

/ experience

Where I’ve worked

Northwind Labs

Staff Backend Engineer

2023 — Present·Remote
  • Led migration of a 6-year-old Rails monolith to a Go-based service mesh; cut p95 latency from 480ms → 110ms.
  • Designed a multi-tenant event bus on Kafka + Schema Registry — 40M events/day, zero data-loss incidents in 18 months.
  • Mentored 4 senior engineers; instituted RFC and post-incident review processes across the platform org.
Helio Systems

Senior Backend Engineer

2020 — 2023·Berlin (hybrid)
  • Built the auth & RBAC service (Rust, OAuth 2.1, short-lived JWTs) used by 4 internal products and 12k external orgs.
  • Owned the observability stack — OpenTelemetry pipelines into ClickHouse, dashboards adopted company-wide.
  • On-call rotation lead for a 99.98% SLA; reduced paging volume 60% via SLO-driven runbooks.
Lattice & Loom

Backend Engineer

2018 — 2020·Singapore
  • Shipped the first version of the order pipeline (Node.js + PostgreSQL) handling 3k orders/day at launch.
  • Introduced contract tests between Go and Node services — caught 40+ breaking changes pre-prod in the first quarter.
  • Wrote the internal gRPC style guide still in use today.

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Things I’ve shipped

Helix — Distributed Job Queue
At-least-once job scheduler with exactly-once sinks, built on Postgres + Redis Streams. Powers async workloads across 3 services.
GoPostgreSQLRedisgRPC

12k req/min • 99.99% delivery

Forge — Auth & RBAC
Drop-in identity service with OIDC, short-lived JWTs, refresh rotation, and policy-based RBAC. Used by 4 internal products.
RustOAuth 2.1PostgreSQLOpenTelemetry

p95 18ms • 0 CVE since launch

Quill — Observability Sidecar
Lightweight log/metrics shipper that batches to ClickHouse. Auto-discovers pods, tags with k8s metadata, ships via OTLP.
TypeScriptClickHouseKubernetesOTLP

12k pods • 4 GB/min steady

/ contact

Let’s build something reliable.
Open to staff / senior backend roles and short-term consulting on distributed systems, API design, or observability. Fastest reply over email.
adib@adib-the-noob.com
usually replies within a day

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