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Md Arfath AzeezMA
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Md Arfath Azeez

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Senior Software Engineer with 7 years building and owning production backend systems in Ruby on Rails and Elixir/OTP for high-scale remote teams.

India
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What I'm looking for

A remote backend or fullstack role (Ruby on Rails, Elixir, or similar) with real ownership over architecture and production systems - not just ticket execution. Open to full-time or long-term contract work, ideally with US/EU-based teams and IST-compatible overlap hours, with compensation benchmarked to international/USD rates for the seniority and scope of the work.

I'm a Senior Software Engineer based in Mysore, India, with 7 years of experience across two companies - Oracle Health and, currently, Mobile Commons (formerly Upland Software) - building and owning production backend systems for high-scale, data-heavy platforms.

At Mobile Commons, I own core parts of a Ruby on Rails monolith powering a messaging platform for nonprofits: audience segmentation, two-way SMS/broadcast campaigns, and CRM/donation-data sync, sustaining roughly 16,000+ messages per minute at peak campaign load. When the Rails worker pool hit I/O ceilings under that load, I extracted the dispatch workload into a dedicated Elixir/OTP microservice using a multi-stage GenStage topology with configurable back-pressure, deployed on AWS ECS/Fargate with auto-scaling tied to queue depth — so the system degrades gracefully under bursts instead of failing. I've also applied PostgreSQL performance work (partial and trigram indexing) to keep query performance predictable at scale, evaluated and extended feature-flag infrastructure (Unleash, with custom parent-child dependency logic), and led adoption of new engineering tooling and standards across a 12+ engineer team.

Before that, at Oracle Health, I engineered secure RESTful APIs for healthcare data workflows under strict compliance requirements, built an automated recovery daemon that cut issue resolution time by 40%, and overhauled a legacy deployment pipeline across three production applications, cutting deployment time by 50%.

While Rails and Elixir are where I go deepest, I work comfortably across the fullstack - JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, and React - and I'm equally at home diagnosing a production incident, designing a data model, or mentoring engineers through a new tool or standard. I'm currently looking for remote backend or fullstack opportunities where I can take real ownership of systems at scale.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Current

Senior Software Engineer I

Mobile Commons

May 2023 - Present (3 years 2 months)

Owned core parts of a high-throughput Rails messaging platform for nonprofits (SMS/broadcast, CRM sync), across backend and frontend. Scaled async processing via Sidekiq/Redis, tuned PostgreSQL indexing, and extracted a bottlenecked service into an Elixir/OTP microservice on AWS ECS/Fargate. Also led engineering-standards and mentoring across a 12+ engineer team.

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Software Engineer II

Jun 2019 - Apr 2023 (3 years 10 months)

Engineered secure RESTful APIs for healthcare data workflows on a Ruby on Rails stack under strict data-compliance requirements. Built an automated Jira ticketing and auto-recovery daemon for Oozie workflow failures, cutting issue resolution time by 40%. Overhauled the legacy CI/CD pipeline across 3 production apps, cutting deployment time by 50%.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

The National Institute of Engineering logoTE

The National Institute of Engineering

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech), Information Science & Engineering

2015 - 2019

Grade: 8.2 CGPA

Earned a B.Tech in Information Science & Engineering at The National Institute of Engineering, Mysore, achieving 8.2 CGPA, from March 2015 to May 2019.

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India

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Salary expectations

60k-100k USD

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