Software Engineer (Backend – Go) at XI – Minimal Blog Platform

Built a modular Go backend leveraging Redis, JWT, OAuth, optimized routing, and concurrency patterns (goroutines, mutexes), delivering a 9x throughput increase (from 768 req/s to 6893 req/s). Tuned production Linux servers (db indexing, systemd, filesystem optimization) reducing API latency by 40-55% under peak load. Designed and executed CI/CD pipelines with Docker + GitHub Actions, reducing deployment time from 12 minutes to 2 minutes and eliminating manual releases. Migrated legacy Laravel codebase to Go, reducing CPU usage and memory footprint and enabling easier deployment (packaged binary). Developed reusable Go packages for configuration management (JSON + environment injection) used across internal services repo: github.com/xet-labs/site-xi-dev-Utility