Work
Systems I designed and products I shipped — event-driven pipelines, real-time delivery layers, billing infrastructure, and an AI interview coach.
WebSocket Scale-Out Layer
MSP Billing Infrastructure
Torek — AI Interview Coach
About
I build and scale the backend systems that move money.
With 6.5+ years across fintech, crypto, supply chain and proptech, I take systems from whiteboard to production — and own them on call. Event-driven pipelines, real-time delivery and PCI DSS–compliant APIs behind them. Honest numbers, no surprises.
Now Solo-building torek.app — an AI interview-coaching product. RAG-grounded answers, golden-set LLM evals, shipped end-to-end.
My Experience
6.5+ years shipping backend platforms end-to-end — from crypto market-data pipelines to MSP billing infrastructure. Pick a role to see the missions.
Download CV- 80+ MSP partners · ~$6–7M ARR — lead 3 engineers across 3 projects building Blackpoint’s billing & account infrastructure on Node.js, MongoDB, PostgreSQL and Kubernetes.
- 7 partner integrations — built the Pax8 and ConnectWise integrations that let MSPs bill end users, plus 5 more security integrations (Bitdefender, CyberCNS, Cisco Umbrella) across those 80+ MSPs.
- MTTR ~6h → 2–3h — alerting dashboards, centralized logging (Prometheus/Grafana) and OpsGenie on-call incident response.
- −15% excess inventory — led 7 projects with a team of 5 and designed the cross-functional inventory optimization tool.
- −20–25% supplier pricing — ran competitive RFQs and drove margin growth.
- Days → minutes to insight — shipped an LLM-powered analytics tool on ClickHouse so the business team could query data in natural language.
- Built the portal connecting clients and suppliers to the ERP, raised code quality through reviews and mentorship, and ran first-round technical interviews for engineering hires.
- 30K → 200K users — shipped referral, reward points and gamification features: a real-time rewards/coins leaderboard (Redis), ticketing, contact management and a 2FA-removal workflow.
- Horizontal WebSocket scale-out — Redis Pub/Sub decoupled connection handling from message fan-out, preserving per-connection state and ordering.
- Sub-second market data — TimescaleDB for accurate OHLC charts, atomic/idempotent APIs, caching, indexing and schema versioning.
- Shipped security hardening — input sanitization, NoSQL-injection prevention and PCI DSS compliance.
- 20–30 crypto indicators — streamed through a Node.js socket client to Kafka for real-time analytics.
- 2–3M hits/month — caching cut historical-data-query latency and DB load across the real-time analytics stack.
- Built an automated Bybit trading engine executing on Hyblock indicators with execution-latency and reliability monitoring.
- Engineered the Node.js WS→Kafka data backbone with connections, msg/sec, p95, reconnect and error-rate monitoring.
- Built findmycowork.com end-to-end on Node.js/Express with EJS — server-rendered pages, APIs and data models to book, manage and sell coworking spaces.
- Shipped a Reservation Management System (RMS), advanced shopping filters, integrated property e-commerce and a responsive mailing system.
- Contributed to the national Marine Domain Awareness–Decision Support System for the Indian Navy.
Core Skills
6.5+ years of production backend systems — the disciplines I lean on day to day.
- Node.js · TypeScript · JavaScript
- Express · SQL · Socket.io
- React · REST & WebSocket APIs
- Microservices · Event-Driven
- Idempotent & atomic APIs · rate limiting
- WebSockets · System Design
- Kafka · Redis Pub/Sub
- WebSockets · Socket.io
- Sub-second delivery · horizontal scale-out
- PostgreSQL · TimescaleDB
- MongoDB · ClickHouse · Redis · Kafka
- Caching · indexing · schema versioning
- RAG · vector search (pgvector)
- Gemini / OpenAI LLM APIs
- Golden-set evals · tolerant LLM JSON parsing
- AI-assisted delivery
- AWS · Docker · Kubernetes · CI/CD
- Prometheus/Grafana · OpsGenie
- PCI DSS · OWASP · input sanitization