Hi, I’m Vusal Ismayilov, a Senior Backend Engineer with 6+ years of production experience across distributed systems, IoT data pipelines, and AI-integrated platforms. I’ve delivered end-to-end SaaS projects across EdTech, ICT, and YC-backed healthcare platforms, spanning event-driven microservices, real-time asset tracking, and cross-platform desktop apps. I own backend architecture end-to-end—from system design to production—across solo and small-team environments.

Vusal Ismayilov

Hi, I’m Vusal Ismayilov, a Senior Backend Engineer with 6+ years of production experience across distributed systems, IoT data pipelines, and AI-integrated platforms. I’ve delivered end-to-end SaaS projects across EdTech, ICT, and YC-backed healthcare platforms, spanning event-driven microservices, real-time asset tracking, and cross-platform desktop apps. I own backend architecture end-to-end—from system design to production—across solo and small-team environments.

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Hi, I’m Vusal Ismayilov, a Senior Backend Engineer with 6+ years of production experience across distributed systems, IoT data pipelines, and AI-integrated platforms.

I’ve delivered end-to-end SaaS projects across EdTech, ICT, and YC-backed healthcare platforms, spanning event-driven microservices, real-time asset tracking, and cross-platform desktop apps. I own backend architecture end-to-end—from system design to production—across solo and small-team environments.

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Language

English
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Work Experience

Software Engineer (Contract) at Proximo (IoT Solutions Consultancy)
January 1, 2026 - Present
Built a real-time asset tracking pipeline processing 2,000+ location updates per second; sensor data flows through a Rust service and Redis queue into a non-site Timescale DB, then syncs to the cloud via Google Cloud Pub/Sub, delivering position updates to 1,000+ tracked assets in under 500ms end-to-end over WebSocket.
Senior Backend Engineer at GLNK (YC-backed Healthcare Intelligence Platform)
September 1, 2022 - May 2, 2025
Engineered a production RAG system using Azure OpenAI embeddings and MongoDB vector search; architected a monorepo with Yarn Workspaces and GitHub Actions CI/CD; migrated 75% of JavaScript tests to TypeScript; led production Electron.js desktop app work and implemented a robust REST API stack for enterprise use.

Education

MSc in Computer Science at University of Szeged
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2022
BSc in Computer Science at Khazar University
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2020

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Industry Experience

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

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