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I am Nelson Kondia, a backend engineer with several years of experience building scalable services in SaaS environments. I specialize in Python Django, FastAPI, Go, and Node.js, working across PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and ElasticSearch on AWS infrastructure. I enjoy turning complex data problems into reliable APIs, designing scalable event-driven architectures, and delivering robust, well-tested software. In my free time I explore cloud-native tooling and contribute to open-source.…I am Nelson Kondia, a backend engineer with several years of experience building scalable services in SaaS environments. I specialize in Python Django, FastAPI, Go, and Node.js, working across PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and ElasticSearch on AWS infrastructure. I enjoy turning complex data problems into reliable APIs, designing scalable event-driven architectures, and delivering robust, well-tested software. In my free time I explore cloud-native tooling and contribute to open-source.

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I am Nelson Kondia, a backend engineer with several years of experience building scalable services in SaaS environments. I specialize in Python Django, FastAPI, Go, and Node.js, working across PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and ElasticSearch on AWS infrastructure. I enjoy turning complex data problems into reliable APIs, designing scalable event-driven architectures, and delivering robust, well-tested software. In my free time I explore cloud-native tooling and contribute to open-source.…I am Nelson Kondia, a backend engineer with several years of experience building scalable services in SaaS environments. I specialize in Python Django, FastAPI, Go, and Node.js, working across PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and ElasticSearch on AWS infrastructure. I enjoy turning complex data problems into reliable APIs, designing scalable event-driven architectures, and delivering robust, well-tested software. In my free time I explore cloud-native tooling and contribute to open-source.

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I am Nelson Kondia, a backend engineer with several years of experience building scalable services in SaaS environments. I specialize in Python Django, FastAPI, Go, and Node.js, working across PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and ElasticSearch on AWS infrastructure.

I enjoy turning complex data problems into reliable APIs, designing scalable event-driven architectures, and delivering robust, well-tested software. In my free time I explore cloud-native tooling and contribute to open-source.

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Back-End Engineer at EDITED

December 1, 2023 - November 1, 2025

Member of the Customer team at EDITED, a retail intelligence platform. Designed and implemented a Python FastAPI API to retrieve market data metrics by translating request parameters into ElasticSearch queries, processing results, performing post-fetch calculations, and returning a configurable response. Built back-end support for scheduling periodic dashboard emails (PDF/PNG attachments) using Node.js and AWS services (EventBridge, SQS), MongoDB storage, and Lambda execution; implemented a daemon session to capture dashboard screenshots. Enhanced a Python library to integrate Pendo Analytics for usage events, including data model definitions, event processing, and validating past events to ensure compatibility with the integration.

Software Development Engineer at Speechmatics

December 1, 2021 - December 1, 2023

SaaS team member responsible for new and enhanced services for transcription solutions. Built a usage-collecting REST API that streams events through Kafka to Azure Event Hub; Go-based, Dockerized, and deployed with Kubernetes. Developed translation and language identification services that trigger ASR containers and manage results from Azure Blob Storage. Authored comprehensive end-to-end tests in Python for reliability.

Software Engineer at StarLeaf

September 1, 2019 - November 1, 2021

Cloud Team member in R&D; performed full-stack work on a customer-facing portal (Python/JavaScript) and backend infrastructure in Python with SaltStack deployments and PostgreSQL migrations. Contributed to the Call Controller in C++. Led full-stack development of an internal redirects management tool (TypeScript React, Python Flask). Played a key role in StarLeaf’s SaaS transition by building a Python aiohttp webhook handler for Zuora subscriptions and updating legacy servers to support the new subscription model.