Hi, I'm Taha — Senior Backend Engineer for Product-Focused Startups

I help fast-moving teams build, scale, and ship backend systems with clean, maintainable code.

• 🔧 9 years in backend & cloud (Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS)
• 🚀 Worked on B2B SaaS platforms, event-driven systems, and multi-region infrastructure
• 🤝 Collaborated closely with product managers and founders — async, autonomous, and reliable
• 🌍 Open to freelance, consulting, or full/part-time backend roles (remote only)

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✅ How I Can Help

I’m best at:

• Building MVPs fast — from blank repo to live in 4-6 weeks
• Cleaning up legacy systems — refactor, modularize, containerize
• Scaling backends — queues, observability, rate limits, cloud infra
• Owning slices of the product — APIs, auth, deployment, team onboarding

Need someone who quietly delivers and doesn’t need handholding? That’s me.

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🧠 Tech Stack

• Languages: TypeScript, Node.js, Python
• Infra: AWS (Lambda, ECS, SQS), Docker, GitHub Actions
• DBs: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
• Patterns: Event-driven, microservices, API-first, CI/CD pipelines

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💼 Recent Projects

𝙃𝙍 / 𝘾𝙤𝙧𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙎𝙖𝙖𝙎:

• Developed and deployed an internal automation tool that reduced task completion time by 83%, dramatically improving team efficiency.
• Delivered a high-impact microservice architecture that improved page load speeds by 4× and report generation by 40×.
• Increased user session growth by 83% and feature adoption by 169%, leading to a 21% boost in client satisfaction.
• Negotiated team alignment across engineering, product, and operations to implement flexible business rule enforcement and data integrity.

𝘾𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙢 𝘿𝙤𝙘𝙪𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝘽𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙚𝙧 (𝙃𝙍 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢):

• Replaced a third-party WYSIWYG editor, achieving:
• 100% licensing cost reduction.
• Enhanced customization, branding, and workflow control.
• Scroll-based progress tracking for better engagement metrics.
• Delivered MVP in 15 days; scaled to full production release as lead engineer.

𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝𝙏𝙚𝙘𝙝 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙨:

• Built a remote diabetes monitoring app for doctors and patients using Ionic, Angular, NgRx, and NestJS.
• Developed a telemedicine platform using OpenTok for secure doctor-patient video consultations.

𝙄𝙤𝙏 / 𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜:

• Delivered a full-stack MVP for structural integrity monitoring using Angular/Ionic, Node.js, NestJS, and PostgreSQL, all deployed to AWS in just 160 hours.

�� Get in Touch

• GitHub: github.com/smtaha512
• Email: contact@smtaha.dev
• Open to: hourly freelanc, part-time contracts, or async projects (timezone-flexible)

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Let’s build something quietly excellent.