Lead the Platform team to design and build scalable Python backend services, architect and support large distributed systems, improve developer productivity, implement CI/CD and IaC, operate cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), mentor engineers, and drive technical initiatives including production AI/LLM work.

Design, build, and scale backend and frontend applications and public APIs. Implement asynchronous pipelines, microservices, databases, caching, and performance optimizations. Develop React+TypeScript frontends, deploy and operate services on AWS with Docker/Kubernetes, and maintain CI/CD, monitoring, and observability. Participate in architecture and engineering best practices.