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System Profile

I am a Solutions Architect and Software Engineer who designs and builds complex distributed systems end-to-end. My work sits at the intersection of software architecture, systems engineering, and infrastructure — whether cloud, on-premise, or bare metal.

Over the years, I have architected and hands-on delivered production platforms handling millions of requests, from high-level system design and domain modeling down to writing the services, pipelines, and infrastructure code that bring them to life. I specialize in breaking down complex business problems into clean, scalable architectures — microservices, event-driven systems, API platforms — and then engineering them into production with the same rigor. Every system I build is designed to be resilient, observable, and maintainable at scale.

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Starting skill-scan at 2026-02-15 03:47 UTC
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8443/tcpactiveazure-services
6443/tcpactivekubernetes-orch
2376/tcpactivedocker-engine
8080/tcpactiveapi-gateway-design
5000/tcpactivemicroservices-arch
4566/tcpactiveserverless-runtime
4040/tcpactiveiac-terraform
9090/tcpactivesecurity-arch
8888/tcpactiveci-cd-pipeline
3000/tcpactivesystem-design-hld
5432/tcpactivedistributed-systems
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9200/tcpactiveobservability-stack
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8500/tcpactiveservice-mesh
3100/tcpactivedomain-driven-design
5601/tcpactivecost-optimization
9443/tcpactivedisaster-recovery
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Capability Matrix

Proficiency metrics across core engineering domains. These represent hands-on production experience building and operating systems at scale, not theoretical knowledge. Each skill is battle-tested across multiple enterprise environments and client engagements.

$ systemctl status cloud-arch
AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, ECS)running
Azure (VMs, Functions, AKS)running
Serverless Architecturerunning
IaC / Terraform / CloudFormationrunning
Multi-Region Deploymentrunning
Cost Optimization / FinOpsrunning
Active since 2018 | 0 incidents
$ systemctl status architecture
Domain-Driven Design (DDD)running
System Design / HLD & LLDrunning
TOGAF / Architecture Frameworksrunning
Distributed Systems Patternsrunning
Data Modeling / Schema Designrunning
Technical Decision Recordsrunning
Active since 2016 | 0 regressions
$ systemctl status engineering
Microservices / Service Meshrunning
API Design (REST, GraphQL, gRPC)running
Event-Driven / Message Queuesrunning
CI/CD Pipelinesrunning
Clean Architecture / SOLIDrunning
Performance Engineeringrunning
Active since 2016 | 0 downtime
$ systemctl status security
IAM & Zero Trust Policiesrunning
Network Security / VPC Designrunning
OWASP Top 10 / AppSecrunning
Compliance (GDPR, SOC2)running
Threat Modeling / Risk Analysisrunning
Secrets Management / Vaultrunning
Active since 2018 | 0 breaches
$ systemctl status operations
Kubernetes / Container Orchrunning
Docker / Containerizationrunning
Monitoring / Observabilityrunning
Disaster Recovery / HArunning
Incident Response / Runbooksrunning
Capacity Planning / Scalingrunning
Active since 2017 | 99.9% uptime
$ systemctl status integration
Enterprise Integration Patternsrunning
ETL / Data Pipelinesrunning
Webhook / Event Bus Designrunning
Third-Party API Integrationrunning
Legacy System Modernizationrunning
Cross-Platform Interoprunning
Active since 2017 | 0 sync failures

Achievements Unlocked

Verified credentials across cloud architecture, security, and infrastructure domains. Each certification represents validated expertise in designing and operating production-grade systems.

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