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Axel Plata Armenta

@axelplataarmenta

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Senior software engineer building distributed systems and AI-powered cloud platforms.

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead backend and AI-enabled distributed platforms—designing secure APIs, event-driven systems, and strong observability—while mentoring teams. I want to build RAG/semantic search and cloud/IoT telemetry solutions in collaborative product/engineering environments.

I’m a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building distributed systems and AI-powered solutions in cloud environments. I lead architecture and delivery of Django/FastAPI backends, Node.js services, and event-driven workflows that improve scalability and resilience.

I also drive observability and operational governance, mentoring engineers on microservices, DDD/CQRS, and production best practices. From RAG pipelines with LangChain and vector search to IoT-to-cloud telemetry, I translate business needs into reliable, secure platforms.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

Joinrefind

Apr 2022 - Present (4 years 3 months)

Led the architecture and delivery of distributed backend platforms using Django and FastAPI for financial, analytics, and AI-driven products. Designed service integration patterns, API layers, security standards, event-driven architectures, and RAG/AI infrastructure, while mentoring engineers and setting testing/CI/CD quality standards.

Senior Software Engineer

Tuple

May 2018 - Apr 2022 (3 years 11 months)

Developed backend platforms with FastAPI and Python for scalable SaaS applications and high-concurrency workloads. Built TypeScript-based Node.js microservices and REST/GraphQL APIs, leveraging Kafka-based event streaming and cloud-native serverless workflows.

Software Engineer

SimpliVity

Oct 2014 - May 2018 (3 years 7 months)

Built backend services using FastAPI and Django and delivered frontend applications with React, Next.js, and Vue.js. Managed containerized deployments on Docker/Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform, and implemented data ingestion, scraping, and CI/CD/test automation.

Full Stack Developer

Parse

Aug 2011 - Oct 2014 (3 years 2 months)

Developed backend services with Python and Node.js for distributed, data-intensive applications and built RESTful APIs for business workflows. Implemented asynchronous integrations, event-driven processing with RabbitMQ/Kafka, user-facing features with React/Vue, and CI/CD automation using GitLab CI and Azure DevOps.