25%
Reliability increase
Interac · microservices redesign
Available for new engagements · Toronto, ON
Scalable systems.
Shipping teams.
Enterprise results.
Engineering leader with 8+ years building production-grade backend systems and high-performing teams at Interac, Rogers Communications, and VerticalScope.
Impact
Numbers that move the needle
Measurable outcomes from real production systems serving millions of users.
10×
Response time improvement
Catena Media · caching implementation
1B+
Weekly requests managed
VerticalScope · Kubernetes cluster
95%
Engineering effort reduced
VerticalScope · deployment automation
70%
User engagement increase
RateMDs · Design Thinking sprint
35%
Revenue boost
RateMDs · ad optimization
Services
What I bring to your team
End-to-end engineering expertise from architecture design to production at scale.
Backend Architecture & Microservices
Design and implement distributed systems that scale. Java, Go, Spring Boot — built to handle production load from day one.
System Design & Scalability
From whiteboard to deployed: design systems that handle 10× traffic spikes, minimize latency, and recover from failure gracefully.
Engineering Team Leadership
Build and lead high-velocity teams. Establish agile practices, code review culture, and career paths that retain top engineers.
Cloud Infrastructure
AWS and GCP at scale. Lambda, SQS, GKE, Kubernetes clusters serving 1B+ weekly requests. Cost-aware, ops-friendly.
API Design
REST, GraphQL, and gRPC APIs that are intuitive for consumers and performant under load. Consistent contracts, clear documentation.
Performance Optimization
Diagnose and fix bottlenecks end-to-end. Caching strategies, query tuning, profiling — measurable results, not guesswork.
Social Proof
What colleagues say
Rameez is the kind of engineer who elevates everyone around him. He took our microservices architecture from a fragile mess to something the team is genuinely proud of — and he did it while keeping the business running at full speed. His ability to zoom out to system design and zoom in to a tricky Go concurrency bug in the same afternoon is rare. I'd work with him again without hesitation.
Experience
8+ years of enterprise impact
Fintech, media, and telecommunications — always at the hard-scaling end.
- 25% reliability increase in 4 months by redesigning commercial e-transfer microservices with Java & Spring Boot.
- Built AI-driven fraud detection for Auto-Deposit, reducing commercial e-transfer fraud incidents measurably.
- Led and mentored a team of 4 engineers — established agile practices, clear career paths, and improved delivery velocity.
- Standardized code review processes and introduced AI tooling for development and test acceleration.
- Managed 4 end-to-end projects, delivering high-quality products that enhanced application performance and reliability.
- Implemented caching that improved response times by 10× and significantly reduced server load.
- Architected robust API standards using AWS SQS + Cloudflare Workers, improving scalability across all services.
- Established coding standards and conducted regular technical design sessions with external developers.
Engineering Manager — RateMDs
- 35% revenue boost from ad enhancement projects delivered on time.
- 70% engagement & retention increase via Design Thinking rapid-iteration experiments.
- 80% site performance improvement and Core Web Vitals optimization.
Senior Software Engineer — Fora Platform
- Led rebuild of Fora platform using Go, Preact, and GraphQL — 50% increase in platform engagement.
- Oversaw Kubernetes cluster supporting 1,200+ production sites and 1B+ weekly requests.
- Designed Go microservice for premium subscriptions: 5× subscriber growth, 80% lower acquisition cost.
- Implemented CI/CD with Enzyme, Jest, TDD, and GitHub Actions.
Software Engineer
- Built Go microservice with gRPC + Google Cloud Pub/Sub, increasing messaging efficiency by 250%.
- Automation with Jenkins & Spinnaker: 95% reduction in engineering effort for launching new communities.
- Rebuilt forum front-end and back-end with React and PHP — significant UX and performance gains.
- Designed microservices from scratch using Java Play/Akka, achieving sub-100ms response times.
- Led monolith → microservices transformation as part of Digital Platform Transformation initiative.
- Developed Kafka consumers for real-time streaming data, microservice logs, and notifications.
- Automated front-end tests for Rogers.com using Selenium WebDriver in Python.
- Trained and mentored incoming developers on architecture, code practices, and team processes.
Tech Stack
Tools of the trade
Battle-tested technologies across the full backend and cloud spectrum.
Languages
Go
Java
JavaScript
TypeScript
Python
PHP
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS Lambda
AWS S3
AWS SQS
AWS RDS
GCP GKE
Pub/Sub
Firestore
Docker
Kubernetes
Databases
PostgreSQL
MySQL
DynamoDB
Elasticsearch
Frameworks & Tools
Spring Boot
React
GraphQL
gRPC
Kafka
Jenkins
Jest
Cloudflare Workers
Project
Built from scratch
Full-stack ownership from architecture to deployment.
Mobile Application · Aug 2022 – Nov 2023
Smack
A full-stack platform for stand-up comedians to share and monetize their material. Built end-to-end with React Native and PHP on a serverless AWS backbone.
React Native
PHP
AWS Lambda
S3 + CloudFront
RDS
Serverless backend using AWS Lambda for elastic scalability with zero ops overhead.
Video CMS handling uploads, transcoding pipeline, and CDN delivery via S3 + CloudFront.
Real-time analytics tracking comedian performance, audience interaction, and engagement metrics.
Managed the entire lifecycle: architecture, development, production deployment, and maintenance.
Education
Foundation
Bachelor of Applied Science — Computer Engineering
University of Toronto · Class of 2016
Available for new engagements
Ready to build
something great?
Whether you need to scale a system, accelerate a team, or design the architecture for what comes next — let's talk.