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I am a backend engineer with 5+ years building production-grade APIs, distributed systems, and agentic AI platforms. I’ve led end-to-end backend and infrastructure work across fintech and AI-powered products, delivering secure, scalable systems at scale. I specialize in turning complex AI workflows into reliable backend services with a strong focus on security, observability, and auditable decision-making, enabling teams to deploy confidently and iterate quickly.…I am a backend engineer with 5+ years building production-grade APIs, distributed systems, and agentic AI platforms. I’ve led end-to-end backend and infrastructure work across fintech and AI-powered products, delivering secure, scalable systems at scale. I specialize in turning complex AI workflows into reliable backend services with a strong focus on security, observability, and auditable decision-making, enabling teams to deploy confidently and iterate quickly.

Derry Ukere

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I am a backend engineer with 5+ years building production-grade APIs, distributed systems, and agentic AI platforms. I’ve led end-to-end backend and infrastructure work across fintech and AI-powered products, delivering secure, scalable systems at scale. I specialize in turning complex AI workflows into reliable backend services with a strong focus on security, observability, and auditable decision-making, enabling teams to deploy confidently and iterate quickly.…I am a backend engineer with 5+ years building production-grade APIs, distributed systems, and agentic AI platforms. I’ve led end-to-end backend and infrastructure work across fintech and AI-powered products, delivering secure, scalable systems at scale. I specialize in turning complex AI workflows into reliable backend services with a strong focus on security, observability, and auditable decision-making, enabling teams to deploy confidently and iterate quickly.

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I am a backend engineer with 5+ years building production-grade APIs, distributed systems, and agentic AI platforms. I’ve led end-to-end backend and infrastructure work across fintech and AI-powered products, delivering secure, scalable systems at scale.

I specialize in turning complex AI workflows into reliable backend services with a strong focus on security, observability, and auditable decision-making, enabling teams to deploy confidently and iterate quickly.

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Work Experience

Backend & Platform Engineer at distinct.ai

December 1, 2023 - Present

Sole backend and infrastructure owner for a production AI-powered recruitment platform. Designed and built a multi-agent system using LangGraph with InterviewAgent, CVReviewerAgent, ResearchAgent, ScoringAgent, and a WorkflowOrchestrator featuring stateful checkpointing and human-in-the-loop decision gates. Implemented MCP to expose backend tools as structured interfaces, validated tool outputs with Pydantic, and wired LLM reasoning to backend systems in a secure, auditable way. Built and managed 9+ microservices, Istio as an internal API gateway, and end-to-end CI/CD (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD). Achieved 99.9% uptime, sub-200ms API responses, and 70% faster deployments. Implemented comprehensive observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) and zero security incidents to date.

Backend Engineer (Contract) at ScaleOps Inc

July 1, 2023 - November 1, 2023

Backend contract role on a multi-service e-commerce platform — API development, service reliability, and developer tooling. Wrote backend APIs for five microservices on Kubernetes, authored Helm charts, configured HPA, and implemented multi-environment deployment pipelines. Introduced Skaffold for local development, secured configurations, and optimized resource usage to reduce deployment risk and cycle time.

Backend & DevOps Engineer (Contract) at Infratech Global

January 1, 2022 - June 1, 2023

Dual backend and infrastructure role on AWS EKS — cluster upgrades, node pool management, autoscaling configuration, and security hardening. Built reusable Terraform modules for VPC/EKS/RDS, implemented RBAC and network policies, and established GitLab CI/CD pipelines with Trivy security scans and zero-downtime deployments. Achieved 99.95% uptime over 6 months.

Backend Engineer → Backend Engineer II at Paywise Technologies

January 1, 2020 - December 1, 2021

Built and scaled core banking APIs for a digital wallet platform serving 50,000+ users. Implemented RESTful services for wallet transactions, transfers, and account management; managed production Linux/PostgreSQL environment with Nginx, Docker, and replication. Improved query performance, implemented caching, and established Sentry error tracking with alerting. Achieved 99.5% uptime.