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Moshood Sikiru

@moshoodsikiru

Senior Backend Engineer specializing in event-driven systems and LLM-powered automation for measurable business outcomes.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a senior backend role where I can design distributed, event-driven systems end-to-end—owning reliability, performance, and production delivery—and apply LLM/automation to reduce manual ops and accelerate real business outcomes.

I’m a Senior Backend Engineer with 7+ years designing and operating distributed, high-throughput systems in fintech and SaaS. I bring deep expertise in event-driven architecture, data pipeline engineering, workflow orchestration, and LLM-powered automation—turning complex production constraints into reliable systems, from system design and performance profiling to incident response and GitOps-driven delivery.

At Parker, I architected an LLM analytics platform using RAG with OpenAI embeddings over a Redshift-backed metric store, driving a 300% increase in analytics product revenue. I also built ingestion pipelines syncing millions of e-commerce orders daily into Redshift, improved sync latency from 4 hours to under 90 minutes, and engineered durable workflows with Temporal (including compensating transactions) to eliminate silent data loss and cut underwriting turnaround from days to minutes. In parallel, I’ve delivered multi-currency payment rails, fault-tolerant edge authorization with Cloudflare Workers + KV idempotency, CI performance gains (6×), and production reliability improvements like resolving PostgreSQL deadlocks and reducing debugging time from 4 hours to under 10 minutes.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

Parker

Sep 2021 - Present (4 years 10 months)

Architected an LLM analytics platform using RAG over a Redshift-backed metric store and built distributed ingestion pipelines syncing millions of orders daily. Delivered fault-tolerant payment, underwriting, and event-processing systems using Temporal and AWS services.

Python fastAPI OpenAI TypeScript Redshift Pgvector AWS Glue S3 PostgreSQL Lambda Temporal GraphQL Cloudflare Workers Wrangler Kubernetes Datadog Slack Redis Next.js GitHub Actions AWS ECS Blue Green Deployment Amazon SQS

Senior Software Engineer

Zelt

Jul 2022 - Dec 2022 (5 months)

Designed an international invoicing engine and document signing workflows with state propagation to keep parties and HR records updated in real time. Built automated billing/subscription management with proration, idempotent Stripe webhook handling, and plan-based access control.

NestJS TypeScript PostgreSQL React Stripe Advisory Locks

Software Engineer

Kafene

Dec 2019 - Jul 2022 (2 years 7 months)

Built and improved a multi-tenant leasing API, including PostgreSQL performance work and caching to reduce database load. Developed fraud detection and webhook processing microservices, and implemented merchant-team RBAC backed by PostgreSQL and middleware policies.

PostgreSQL TypeScript Redis Stripe Plaid AWS Lambda Docker AWS ECS GraphQL Elasticsearch Kubernetes Amazon SQS Dead Letter Queues RBAC Auth0 Recursive CTEs

Software Engineer

Enyata

Aug 2019 - Dec 2019 (4 months)

Built and operated a distributed identity verification microservice using gRPC with Redis caching to avoid redundant third-party calls. Delivered a telemedicine platform with real-time doctor–patient chat backed by PostgreSQL and Firebase.

gRPC PostgreSQL Redis TypeScript Firebase

Software Engineer

Hiit Plc

Feb 2017 - Mar 2018 (1 year 1 month)

Developed loan origination and e-commerce platforms and mentored junior engineers on code review, testing practices, and core system design fundamentals.

PHP Laravel MySQL MongoDB JavaScript

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB)

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2014 - 2020

Grade: First Class Honours; CGPA 4.57/5.0

Activities and societies: Best Graduating Student, Department of Computer Science.

B.Sc. in Computer Science at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), graduating with First Class Honours. Earned a CGPA of 4.57/5.0 and was recognized as the best graduating student in the Department of Computer Science.