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Product-focused Backend Engineer with 5+ years of experience building and shipping end-to-end features across Rails and Python. As founding engineer of an AI-powered legal search platform, I architected the full stack from RAG pipeline to AWS infrastructure. Previously led backend development for a top-50 iPad/Mac music app serving 10k+ users. I always take a step back, remember the "why", and allow the user's need to be my guide.…Product-focused Backend Engineer with 5+ years of experience building and shipping end-to-end features across Rails and Python. As founding engineer of an AI-powered legal search platform, I architected the full stack from RAG pipeline to AWS infrastructure. Previously led backend development for a top-50 iPad/Mac music app serving 10k+ users. I always take a step back, remember the "why", and allow the user's need to be my guide.

Alex Drumia

Back-End Developer, Full Stack Developer, AI Engineer

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Product-focused Backend Engineer with 5+ years of experience building and shipping end-to-end features across Rails and Python. As founding engineer of an AI-powered legal search platform, I architected the full stack from RAG pipeline to AWS infrastructure. Previously led backend development for a top-50 iPad/Mac music app serving 10k+ users. I always take a step back, remember the "why", and allow the user's need to be my guide.…Product-focused Backend Engineer with 5+ years of experience building and shipping end-to-end features across Rails and Python. As founding engineer of an AI-powered legal search platform, I architected the full stack from RAG pipeline to AWS infrastructure. Previously led backend development for a top-50 iPad/Mac music app serving 10k+ users. I always take a step back, remember the "why", and allow the user's need to be my guide.

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Product-focused Backend Engineer with 5+ years of experience building and shipping end-to-end features across Rails and Python. As founding engineer of an AI-powered legal search platform, I architected the full stack from RAG pipeline to AWS infrastructure. Previously led backend development for a top-50 iPad/Mac music app serving 10k+ users. I always take a step back, remember the “why”, and allow the user’s need to be my guide.

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Language

English

Fluent

Croatian

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Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan

Fluent

Italian

Intermediate

Work Experience

Founding Engineer at Legal AI Platform

May 1, 2025 - Present

Founding Engineer of an AI-powered legal document search platform for Romanian law firms. Sole owner of the entire technical stack, from architecture and RAG pipeline design to infrastructure, testing, and market analysis.

Backend Engineer at Healstack

February 1, 2024 - April 1, 2025

Built backend services across multiple projects, integrating external APIs (AirTable, Spotify) and serving data to React frontends with FastAPI and PostgreSQL.

Backend Engineer at Sunday Keys

November 1, 2020 - January 1, 2024

Owned the full backend for a top-50 iPad & Mac music app serving 10k+ users; designed data models, APIs, Shopify integration, and admin tooling.