Senior Software Engineer | Platform Engineer | Building Distributed Systems
Senior Software Engineer with 12+ years of experience building distributed, data-driven systems using C#, .NET, and Python. Deep expertise in microservices architectures, event-driven platforms, and cloud-native infrastructure.
Proven track record delivering high-throughput APIs, inference-ready services, and workflow automation platforms supporting analytics, AI/LLM integrations, and real-time decisioning. Extensive experience operating production systems with Docker, Kubernetes, SQL/NoSQL datastores, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
Effective collaborator across product, data science, frontend, and infrastructure teams, with a consistent focus on reliability, observability, and system scalability.
- Backend: C#, .NET, Python, Java, Golang, Node.js, PHP
- Frontend: React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue.js, Angular
- Frameworks: Spring Boot, Django, Laravel
- Microservices Architecture
- Event-Driven Systems
- Distributed Systems Design
- REST & GraphQL APIs
- Serverless Computing (AWS Lambda)
- Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes
- Cloud Platforms: AWS
- Databases: SQL, NoSQL (Elasticsearch)
- CI/CD: Modern DevOps pipelines
- AI/LLM Integration & Workflows
- High-Throughput API Development
- Real-time Analytics Platforms
- System Reliability & Observability
- ✅ 12+ years of experience building production-grade distributed systems
- ✅ Delivered high-throughput APIs supporting millions of requests
- ✅ Built AI/LLM-powered workflows for automated evaluation and insights
- ✅ Designed event-driven architectures for scalable, reliable systems
- ✅ Improved frontend performance by 30% through optimization
- ✅ Operated production systems with zero-downtime deployments
- GitHub: @john-s-howard
- Email: john.s.howard.me@gmail.com
"Building distributed systems that scale, one microservice at a time."