Azad Mohamed

Azad Mohamed

Backend Engineer
UAE
English, Malayalam
Full-time On-site

About Me

Backend-focused Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience building high-performance systems using Python, Django, and FastAPI. Specialized in distributed microservices, database optimization, and secure fintech archi…

Experience

Senior Full Stack Developer

LMNTO PERFORMANCE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LLC · Dubai, UAE
Jan 2023 - Present · 3 years 10 months

<p>Lead development of multiple fintech platforms handling 2M+ users, designing backend services for transaction processing and financial operations</p><p> Built secure blockchain wallet systems supporting on-chain and off-chain transactions with multi-signature authentication</p><p> Designed distributed architecture for 3 interconnected platforms serving 5M+ users, using gRPC and event-driven patterns</p><p> Built centralized authentication system using OpenID Connect, implementing SSO and RBAC across 15+ services, reducing security vulnerabilities by 40%</p><p> Built an internal AI assistant using local LLMs and frontier models, integrated with platform data APIs, enabling operations teams to query user account status, transaction history, and generate operational reports via natural language</p><p> Developed admin dashboard with real-time system metrics and automated reporting, improving operational efficiency by 35%</p><p> Containerized services using Docker and Kubernetes, improving resource utilization by 30% and enabling zero-downtime deployments</p><p> Wrote architectural decision records (ADRs), API documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger), and maintained automated testing at 90% coverage</p><p> Architected and developed an automated signal-based trading platform integrating MetaTrader 5 (MT5), Binance, and multiple broker/exchange APIs, executing trades across multiple algorithmic trading strategies</p><p> Designed a portfolio allocation and risk management engine using NAV-based exposure rules, capital balancing, position sizing, and configurable strategy allocation, ensuring controlled risk across automated trading systems</p><p> Built a low-latency signal processing and trade execution pipeline supporting concurrent order execution, validation, retries, reconciliation, and broker synchronization</p><p> Investigated and resolved production issues through monitoring, profiling, structured logging, and root-cause analysis, ensuring high platform availability</p>

Senior Software Engineer

Stead Technologies LLP · India
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023 · 4 years

<p>Built the development team from scratch to 15+ engineers, handling hiring, onboarding, and establishing coding standards</p><p> Planned and delivered every project from concept to production, owning architecture design, technical specs, implementation, and maintenance</p><p> Developed multiple fintech platforms integrating with Zoho and QuickBooks via REST APIs and webhooks, syncing financial data into visual dashboards for different stakeholders</p><p> Developed cross-platform mobile applications using React Native with offline synchronization, native integrations, and responsive UI components, achieving 4.8+ app store ratings</p><p> Developed customer-facing web applications, administration portals, and business dashboards using React, TypeScript, and modern frontend technologies</p><p> Selected technology stacks, designed database schemas, defined API contracts, and established microservices boundaries for all projects</p><p> Set up Docker containerization, GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines, and AWS deployment automation, reducing release cycles from weekly to daily</p><p> Built event-driven background processing with RabbitMQ and Celery, handling 100K+ daily jobs including third-party sync, report generation, and notifications</p><p> Owned projects end-to-end, from requirements gathering and architecture design through development, deployment, monitoring, and long-term production maintenance</p><p> Set up centralized logging and monitoring with CloudWatch and custom dashboards, reducing mean time to recovery by 50%</p><p> Configured PostgreSQL with primary-replica setup, automated backups, and connection pooling</p><p> Mentored junior developers and conducted 50+ technical interviews</p>

Skills

Python Django FastAPI Django REST Framework Go Node.js TypeScript SQL PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB Redis Elasticsearch MinIO Database Sharding Connection Pooling Read Replicas OpenAI Anthropic Claude LangChain LangGraph Pinecone Vector Databases RAG Architecture Prompt Engineering Claude Code Cursor AI Microservices Distributed Systems gRPC Protocol Buffers REST APIs GraphQL Event-Driven Architecture RabbitMQ Celery WebSocket Load Balancing Caching Strategies CAP Theorem Background Job Processing Docker Docker Compose Kubernetes AWS EC2 AWS RDS AWS S3 AWS Lambda CloudWatch CI/CD
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