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Innovative Software Engineer with 2+ years of experience turning Amazon Web Services (AWS) into a competitive advantage — specializing in Serverless Applications, Microservices, AI-powered solutions, Agentic Workflows, and Cloud Infrastructure.
I fuse deep cloud expertise with product mindset to architect scalable, AI-powered customer experiences that drive measurable business impact. Known for leading from the front, I bridge engineering and business to deliver solutions that not only work flawlessly but delight customers and solve their toughest challenges.
Two-time Drummer Award winner at Kickdrum — the company's most prestigious honor, recognizing exceptional impact, leadership, and innovation.
Recently working with:
- ✔Amazon Bedrock
- ✔AWS Lambda
- ✔Amazon DynamoDB
- ✔Amazon S3 Vectors
- ✔Pydantic AI
- ✔GraphQL
- ✔Next.js
- ✔Tailwind CSS
- ✔Spring Boot
- ✔PostgreSQL
- ✔Kubernetes
- ✔Docker
- ✔Amazon Bedrock
- ✔AWS Lambda
- ✔Amazon DynamoDB
- ✔Amazon S3 Vectors
- ✔Pydantic AI
- ✔GraphQL
- ✔Next.js
- ✔Tailwind CSS
- ✔Spring Boot
- ✔PostgreSQL
- ✔Kubernetes
- ✔Docker
#work
Backend Developer
AWS Cloud Innovation Center at University of Pittsburgh
Apr 2025 - Present
Lead developer on Smart Outreach Hub — an AI-driven SMS engagement platform automating sales outreach to 30K+ prospects.
- ▪Built the backend event-driven architecture using Lambda, Bedrock, Pydantic AI, and GraphQL to process real-time SMS interactions
- ▪Prompt-engineered an agentic workflow using Claude Sonnet 4 to engage with users and figure out when to hand off to humans
- ▪Created a custom test framework to validate LLM responses by simulating 16 realistic sales conversations
Data Engineering Intern
Pitt Digital
Oct 2024 - Apr 2025
Worked on data pipeline optimization and reliability improvements for survey data processing systems.
- ▪Refactored a Lambda service to fetch, transform, and output survey data asynchronously within 90 seconds
- ▪Added isolated error handling with 96% test coverage to prevent single-point failures in the pipeline
Software Engineer
Kickdrum
Jan 2023 - Jul 2024
Worked on identity management integrations and AWS infrastructure modernization. Drummer Award winner for delivering multiple high-stakes projects with architect-level contributions.
- ▪Led a small team to deliver a SCIM integration that auto-provisions thousands of users from Okta to business apps
- ▪Migrated Auth0 authorization rules to actions for thousands of users across multiple apps with zero downtime
- ▪Rebuilt AWS infrastructure across 3 regions by migrating from drifted CDK to modular Terraform — cut deployment time from hours to minutes
Software Developer
Kickdrum
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Focused on database performance testing and internal tooling. Drummer Award winner for leading performance testing on a 7TB database migration.
- ▪Built automated replay tests on RDS Aurora and EC2 databases using Bash scripts, running across 16 worker machines to support a 7TB database migration to AWS
- ▪Developed a React app to automate onboarding/offboarding for 100+ employees and project management workflows
Software Development Intern
Kickdrum
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
Went through Kickdrum University — an intensive 6-month training program where I tackled real product challenges alongside elite engineers.
- ▪Built production-grade applications including a full-stack hotel booking system with Spring Boot, React, GraphQL, and MySQL on AWS
- ▪Trained across the full stack — AI, backend, frontend, and cloud — learning from Kickdrum's best engineers rather than typical onboarding exercises
- ▪Developed the engineering habits and ownership mindset that Kickdrum is known for, going far beyond standard industry training
#projects
Smart Outreach Hub
Pydantic AI, Bedrock, Lambda, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, GraphQL, React
AI-powered platform enhancing customer engagement by automating outreach processes.
NYC Scout
Google Vertex AI, Google App Engine, Flask, LangGraph, LangChain
End-to-end AI/ML system for NYC taxi fare prediction with multi-modal capabilities.
Social Network Analysis
Scala, Apache Spark, Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR), Amazon S3
Graph-based analysis of Twitter users to identify influential users and recommend new connections based on shared interests.
JOIN Society
Spring Boot, MySQL, Next.js, Tailwind CSS
End-to-end full stack fashion e-commerce web application.
Verse Vibe
Spring Boot, Elasticsearch, Next.js, Material UI
Lyrics-based song recommendation web application with search engine optimization.
Portfolio Website
Astro, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Github Actions
Personal portfolio website showcasing projects and skills, automatically deployed to GitHub Pages using GitHub Actions.
#skills
Languages
- Java
- Python
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Go
- Scala
- SQL
Backend
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- FastAPI
- Flask
- NestJS
- GraphQL
- Go Fiber
AI/ML
- Pydantic AI
- LangChain
- LangGraph
- Pandas
- NumPy
- Matplotlib
Tools
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Git
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Claude Code
- Cursor
Big Data
- Apache Spark
- Apache Kafka
- Apache Samza
- Databricks
Frontend
- Next.js
- React
- React Native
- Astro
- Redux
- Tailwind CSS
- Material UI
#contact
Want to build something cool together? Looking to hire or just connect? Drop me a line.
mohammed.misran@pitt.edu