About

Software engineer with a DevOps mindset and 10+ years of experience, specializing in Go programming but open to exploring other technologies. Focused on backend development, infrastructure automation, and CI/CD improvements. Passionate about the KISS principle and avoiding unnecessary reinvention.

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer @ Sword Health

Jul 2025 - Present
  • Checkmark Built AI integrations for mental health assessments and health metrics data pipelines for clinical services
  • Checkmark Developed chat service with real-time messaging, media sharing, and notifications
  • Checkmark Integrated OAuth and payment gateways to streamline clinical workflows and improve user experience
Go | PostgreSQL | Node.js | Vue.js | GCP | Helm | K8S | Terraform

Senior Software Engineer @ Bankable (Arex Markets)

Jul 2021 - Jul 2025
  • Checkmark Built authentication service with Auth0 integration and custom authorization layer for platform-specific access control
  • Checkmark Architected customer onboarding workflows integrating AML/KYC verification, pricing engine, and eligibility services
  • Checkmark Modernized infrastructure by migrating CI/CD to GitHub Actions and managing multi-cloud deployments (AWS, GCP, Cloudflare) with Terraform
  • Checkmark Mentored engineers and automated production data anonymization for test environments
Go | PostgreSQL | Node.js | Vue.js | AWS | GCP | Helm | K8S | Terraform

Backend Developer @ Paack

Jul 2020 - Jul 2021
  • Checkmark Built event-driven microservices with GraphQL APIs and gRPC using Go and Pub/Sub
  • Checkmark Integrated Twilio and Auth0, automated deployments with GitHub Actions and K8s
Go | GCP | GraphQL | PostgreSQL

Software Developer @ Arex Markets

Nov 2018 - Jul 2020
  • Checkmark Built invoice automation, transaction management, and bank integrations
  • Checkmark Migrated Node.js monolith to Go microservices
Go | Node.js | TypeScript | Vue.js | PostgreSQL | Docker | AWS | GPC

Backend Engineer @ Holaluz

Feb 2018 - Nov 2018
  • Checkmark Built sales workflow tool and automated distributor onboarding
  • Checkmark Refactored legacy code and improved test coverage
PHP | Symfony | Laravel | Vue.js | Angular | PostgreSQL | MySQL | AWS

Software Developer @ Inbenta

Feb 2016 - Feb 2018
  • Checkmark Built content importer with web crawling and API integrations (Zendesk, Salesforce)
  • Checkmark Developed chatbot and NLP search features, customized platform for clients
PHP | Vue.js | jQuery | MySQL

Software Developer @ Arin Innovation

Oct 2014 - Feb 2016
  • Checkmark Built Oracle JD Edwards customizations and BI reports
Oracle | Oracle JD Edwards | Oracle DB | PS/SQL | Oracle BI publisher

Projects

Messenger

A tiny Go library to easily publish/subscribe asynchronous messages using the outbox pattern, supporting different message stores and brokers.

https://github.com/x4b1/messenger