Own backend design and service boundaries; remain hands-on; conduct design and code reviews; mentor engineers; manage dependencies and production readiness
Primary Focus: EBC backend/runtime, APIs, session and identity context, integrations, reliable delivery of data and AI responses
Security and Governance: Secure coding; least privilege; identity propagation; secrets management; masking; audit logging; protection of sensitive data
Observability and Operations: Logging, metrics, distributed tracing, dashboards, alerting, SLIs, incident response, root-cause analysis, recovery, and support runbooks
Testing and Quality: Unit, integration, contract, regression, performance, load, and resilience testing; automated quality gates
CI/CD and Release: Automated build, test, deployment, promotion, rollback, credential rotation, and environment management
Cloud and Infrastructure: GCP, GKE, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, service accounts, secrets, workload identity, networking, DNS, load balancing, and private connectivity
Knowledge Graph: Ability to integrate backend services with semantic and graph interfaces
AI and Retrieval: Working knowledge of conversational AI, agent integration, structured response payloads, citations, and graceful handling of unavailable downstream services
Data Engineering: Advanced SQL; BigQuery; curated and authorized views; query optimization; result transformation; pagination, filtering, masking, and role-aware delivery
API and Integration: API-first design; Apigee; authentication and authorization; user-context propagation; versioned contracts; rate limiting; integration with UI, AI gateways, agents, BigQuery, and Stardog
Backend Engineering: Advanced Python; REST and streaming APIs; asynchronous processing; session and workflow-state management; retries, timeouts, caching, schema validation, and structured error handling