Hi, I’m Fadil Kulam. I am a Senior Founding Engineer and Solutions Architect with 13+ years of building high-scale, cloud-native products—from zero-to-one startup platforms to enterprise systems processing millions of transactions. I’m proficient across the Microsoft stack (C#/.NET, ASP.NET Core/ MVC / Web Forms) and modern frontend frameworks (React, Next.js, Angular, Vue) and I design scalable microservice architectures, real-time data pipelines, and CI/CD automation. I enjoy mentoring teams and driving architectural decisions that balance performance, reliability, and business impact. I’ve delivered end-to-end solutions spanning backend, frontend, and data engineering. My work includes real-time data streaming with Kafka, HIPAA-compliant healthcare data platforms, Docker/Kubernetes deployments, Azure/AWS cloud infrastructure, and robust testing ecosystems. I aim to turn complex problems into pragmatic, production-ready products while fostering a collaborative, high-velocity engineering culture.

Hi, I’m Fadil Kulam. I am a Senior Founding Engineer and Solutions Architect with 13+ years of building high-scale, cloud-native products—from zero-to-one startup platforms to enterprise systems processing millions of transactions. I’m proficient across the Microsoft stack (C#/.NET, ASP.NET Core/ MVC / Web Forms) and modern frontend frameworks (React, Next.js, Angular, Vue) and I design scalable microservice architectures, real-time data pipelines, and CI/CD automation. I enjoy mentoring teams and driving architectural decisions that balance performance, reliability, and business impact. I’ve delivered end-to-end solutions spanning backend, frontend, and data engineering. My work includes real-time data streaming with Kafka, HIPAA-compliant healthcare data platforms, Docker/Kubernetes deployments, Azure/AWS cloud infrastructure, and robust testing ecosystems. I aim to turn complex problems into pragmatic, production-ready products while fostering a collaborative, high-velocity engineering culture.

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Hi, I’m Fadil Kulam. I am a Senior Founding Engineer and Solutions Architect with 13+ years of building high-scale, cloud-native products—from zero-to-one startup platforms to enterprise systems processing millions of transactions. I’m proficient across the Microsoft stack (C#/.NET, ASP.NET Core/ MVC / Web Forms) and modern frontend frameworks (React, Next.js, Angular, Vue) and I design scalable microservice architectures, real-time data pipelines, and CI/CD automation. I enjoy mentoring teams and driving architectural decisions that balance performance, reliability, and business impact.

I’ve delivered end-to-end solutions spanning backend, frontend, and data engineering. My work includes real-time data streaming with Kafka, HIPAA-compliant healthcare data platforms, Docker/Kubernetes deployments, Azure/AWS cloud infrastructure, and robust testing ecosystems. I aim to turn complex problems into pragmatic, production-ready products while fostering a collaborative, high-velocity engineering culture.

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Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer at SPR
February 1, 2020 - November 1, 2023
Delivered a .NET/ASP.NET MVC backend handling 500K+ daily transactions with optimized T-SQL queries reducing report generation time by 40%. Built cross-platform client applications using Blazor Server and .NET MAUI, delivering a unified health-care solution that increased clinician mobile adoption by 45%. Developed Node.js microservices and MongoDB data stores for a health-care record platform with HIPAA-compliant storage/retrieval across 1M+ patient records. Built real-time health-care data pipelines using Apache Kafka, ingesting and processing event streams from multiple hospital systems with 99.9% message-delivery reliability. Designed responsive front-end interfaces with Tailwind CSS, improving page-load performance by 30% and standardizing UI components across 4+ client projects. Deployed and scaled client applications on AWS, established a CI/CD and unit-testing framework raising code coverage to 85% and reducing production defects by ~50% across Cognigy. Established engineering
Founding Engineer at Cognigy
August 1, 2016 - January 1, 2020
Built the core conversational AI platform from the ground up as a founding engineer, developing backend services in C#/.NET and Python, and a low-code NL/U intent recognition layer to handle multi-turn conversations. Engineered backend microservices on Microsoft Azure with PostgreSQL powering real-time conversions. Created a cloud-based manufacturing test platform for Azure, cutting testing time by 80% and saving over $100K. Built an ML image-generation service using Dockerized microservices orchestrated on Kubernetes (AKS) to scale workloads. Decoupled service communication using Azure Service Bus and RabbitMQ to improve fault tolerance across the architecture. Optimized data access with EF Core queries, reducing API latency by ~35% under heavy concurrent load. Established the team’s core engineering practices and infrastructure, including CI/CD pipelines and containerized Azure deployments, with a TypeScript/Next.js frontend stack to support enterprise customers.
Senior Software Engineer at Groupon
June 1, 2013 - August 1, 2016
Developed ASP.NET MVC 4/5 and Web API 2 for payments, shipping, and account management, supporting millions of monthly e-commerce transactions with low-latency inter-service communication. Migrated legacy WCF/ASMX services to RESTful Web API 2 endpoints with OpenAPI/Swagger, reducing inter-service latency and improving interoperability. Built Python-based ETL pipelines (Pandas) to ingest and normalize multi-source telemetry data, feeding ML anomaly-detection models and reducing data preprocessing latency by ~50%. Reduced front-end defects by ~45% by introducing standardized, component-driven development with React modules. Set up containerized testing environments using Docker and established a unit-test suite for sales and order-tracking services supporting 5,000+ concurrent users, reducing QA cycle time by ~50%.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology
September 1, 2009 - May 1, 2013

Qualifications

React Developer
January 11, 2030 - June 23, 2026
AWS Developer
January 11, 2030 - June 23, 2026
Microsoft Certified Professional
January 11, 2030 - June 23, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Healthcare, Professional Services, Manufacturing, Education