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Professional experience, technical expertise, and qualifications for senior software-engineering and B2B engagements.

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Experience

Current professional engagements are presented with their overlapping dates and engagement context.

  1. B2B consulting engagement

    Present

    B2B consulting engagement · Remote from Tirana, Albania

    Senior Software Engineer — B2B Consultant

    ISA Consulting Group L.L.C.

    Senior full-stack B2B consultant delivering two legal-tech SaaS products across backend services, frontend applications, cloud infrastructure, and third-party integrations.

    • Build and enhance a greenfield multi-tenant platform for FOIA, DSAR, and public-records request management, with tenant isolation enforced through PostgreSQL Row-Level Security.
    • Develop backend services and REST APIs using Python, FastAPI, async SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, and Redis, alongside accessible and internationalized React and TypeScript interfaces.
    • Work with SAML, OIDC, passwordless email OTP, public search, agency dashboards, document workflows, scheduled background processing, and third-party legal-data integrations.
    • Deliver full-stack functionality for an established e-discovery platform using Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, and Sidekiq.
    • Use an AI-assisted Spec-Driven Development workflow with Claude Code and MCP integrations, while retaining engineering responsibility for specifications, architecture, validation, code quality, testing, and production readiness.
    • Python
    • FastAPI
    • Ruby on Rails
    • React
    • TypeScript
    • PostgreSQL
    • Elasticsearch
  2. Previous experience

    Present

    Tirana, Albania

    Software Developer

    Lufthansa Industry Solutions sh.p.k

    Deliver backend and full-stack enterprise applications, AWS infrastructure, deployment automation, observability, and production-reliability improvements.

    • Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain enterprise applications using Java, Go, TypeScript, Spring Boot, React, and Next.js.
    • Implement infrastructure as code using AWS CDK and CloudFormation, including Amazon ECS deployments and supporting AWS resources.
    • Build observability capabilities using OpenTelemetry, AWS X-Ray, CloudWatch, Grafana, and Micrometer.
    • Implement distributed tracing, trace-correlated structured logging, application and infrastructure metrics, operational dashboards, alerts, and CloudWatch alarms.
    • Maintain CI/CD workflows and investigate production incidents, performance issues, application defects, and dependency vulnerabilities.
    • Java
    • Go
    • Spring Boot
    • AWS
    • AWS CDK
    • OpenTelemetry
    • CloudWatch
  3. Previous experience

    Tirana, Albania

    Software Developer

    Tetra Solutions Sh.p.k

    • Developed and maintained enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Hibernate, JPA, and React.
    • Designed REST APIs, application layers, and relational database models.
    • Implemented event-driven functionality using Apache Kafka.
    • Worked with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle Database, and SMPP integrations.
    • Java
    • Spring Boot
    • Spring Security
    • Hibernate
    • JPA
    • Maven
    • Apache Kafka
    • React
    • PostgreSQL
    • MySQL
    • Oracle Database
    • SMPP

Expertise

  • Backend and SaaS engineering

    Backend services and APIs for secure, multi-tenant SaaS and enterprise systems.

    • Java
    • Spring Boot
    • Python
    • FastAPI
    • Ruby on Rails
    • Go
    • REST APIs
  • Frontend engineering

    Accessible, responsive, and internationalized interfaces built with modern React and TypeScript tooling.

    • React
    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
    • Vite
    • Tailwind CSS
    • Internationalization
  • Cloud and observability

    AWS infrastructure defined as code, instrumented so distributed services can be traced, measured, and alerted on.

    • AWS
    • AWS CDK
    • CloudFormation
    • Terraform
    • OpenTelemetry
    • AWS X-Ray
    • CloudWatch
    • Grafana
  • AI-assisted engineering

    Spec-Driven Development with coding agents, reusable skills, and specialized review workflows, with engineering ownership retained.

    • Spec-Driven Development
    • Claude Code
    • MCP
    • Reusable skills
    • Specialized review agents
    • AI-assisted testing
    • Code review

Technical skills

Core languages
Java, Python, Go, TypeScript, Ruby, JavaScript
Backend and data
Spring Boot, Spring Security, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Ruby on Rails, Gin, JPA, Hibernate, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch
Frontend
React, Next.js, React Native, Vite, Tailwind CSS, SvelteKit
Cloud, infrastructure, and observability
AWS, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform, ECS, Google Cloud, Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, AWS X-Ray, CloudWatch, Grafana, Micrometer
Security, delivery, and tooling
OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, Keycloak, PostgreSQL Row-Level Security, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Playwright, Jest, SonarQube, Apache Kafka, Amazon SQS, EventBridge, Sidekiq, Spec-Driven Development, Claude Code, MCP

Education and languages

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

University of New York Tirana

Tirana, Albania

Languages

Albanian
Native
English
C1
Italian
B2

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