Imran Latif

I’m Imran Latif, a cloud-native software engineer with 7+ years of hands-on experience (Aug 2018 → Oct 2025) designing and scaling secure, observable backends and event-driven systems across AWS, Azure, and GCP. I specialize in Python/FastAPI, container/serverless runtimes (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, Lambda), streaming and queues (SQS), and production AI integrations (OpenAI, LangChain, vector search). My work blends architecture with delivery: I build APIs and data/AI pipelines, wire them to CI/CD, secure them, and instrument them—so they’re fast, reliable, and cost-aware.

Services / Skill Set

• Backend & APIs: FastAPI microservices, async tasks (Celery/Redis), Postgres, schema/design, performance tuning, test automation (Pytest).
• Event-Driven & Data: Serverless pipelines (Lambda, SQS, S3), ETL/ELT on AWS Glue/Athena, RAG pipelines with FAISS and embeddings, caching and search (Redis/Solr).
• Cloud Architecture & DevOps: IaC (AWS CDK, Terraform), CI/CD (GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, SAM), Kubernetes workloads, observability (CloudWatch, dashboards, metrics/logs).
• Security & Compliance: OAuth2/JWT, SAML SSO (Cognito, Azure AD/Okta), SSL/TLS, SOC 2 posture, static analysis (CodeQL), least-privilege design.
• Marketplace & Billing: Azure Marketplace SaaS onboarding, usage metering, subscription/billing workflows.

Where I’ve Done It (company • role • dates)

• Epiq • Cloud Engineer (Contract) • Nov 2024–Present (~11 mo)
• Built FastAPI services (Postgres/Celery/Redis), onboarded Azure Marketplace SaaS, automated VM patching/backups (99.95% uptime), hardened endpoints with Nginx + SSL/TLS and CodeQL.
• Iris AI • Lead Backend Engineer (Part-time) • Apr 2025–Sep 2025 (5 mo)
• Migrated to FastAPI; moved WebSockets from API Gateway/Lambda to ECS (≈80% cold-start reduction); added OpenAI tool/structured outputs and image gen; metering via Lambda/SQS/DynamoDB; IaC with CDK; high-coverage tests and CloudWatch observability.
• LAER AI (acquired by Epiq) • Backend Engineer • Sep 2023–Nov 2024 (1 yr 2 mo)
• Led AWS→Azure migration (zero downtime); containerized ML/data pipelines; implemented SAML SSO; shipped FastAPI features with Celery/Redis/Solr; CI/CD via GitHub Actions/Jenkins/ArgoCD.
• Storewise • Senior Backend Engineer • May 2023–Oct 2024 (1 yr 5 mo)
• Decomposed monolith to event-driven (Lambda/SQS/S3) cutting response times ≈70%; built ChatGPT-powered assistant; implemented RAG (LangChain + FAISS on S3); custom logging libs via CodeArtifact; CloudWatch dashboards.
• Truevo • Senior Software Engineer • Jul 2021–Dec 2022 (1 yr 5 mo)
• High-throughput payouts (Lambda/ECS/API Gateway/SNS/RDS); Cognito (JWT); supported Payments/Fraud (Temenos/3DS); tuned Lambda concurrency.
• Techticks Digital • Co-Founder • Dec 2020–Apr 2023 (2 yr 4 mo)
• Ran delivery for 10+ clients; led hiring/standards; shipped cloud backends with CI/CD and data workflows.
• Northbay Solutions • Software Engineer • Aug 2018–Jun 2020 (1 yr 10 mo)
• Built AWS ETL (Python, Glue, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB); optimized Glue jobs (≈40% faster); enhanced a legacy .NET/SQL platform with AWS integrations.