Senior Backend Engineer with 10+ years of experience building scalable microservices, RESTful APIs, distributed systems, and AI-enabled cloud platforms. Expert in C#/.NET Core, Node.js, and Python with strong background in Kubernetes, Docker, event-driven architecture, Kafka messaging, and cloud infrastructure. Proven experience integrating Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector search, and embeddings into production systems. Strong focus on performance optimization, security, observability, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency