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Available — Open to Distributed Systems & Infrastructure roles

NICHOLAS
EMMANUEL

Distributed Systems//Secure Infrastructure — Secure by Design

Build · Secure · Lead

I build the systems that power everything else — consensus engines, distributed storage, internal platforms, and the infrastructure that serves AI. Secure by design, engineered for failure, built to hold at scale. Technology should serve humanity with excellence.

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4+Years Engineering
40+Engineers Mentored
01 / Tech Stack

TOOLING

Languages
GoPythonRustCSQLBash / Linux
Data Stores
PostgreSQLRedisDynamoDBClickHouseTimescaleDBetcd
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3)GCPDockerKubernetesTerraformHelmArgoCD
Observability & Messaging
PrometheusGrafanaJaegerOpenTelemetrygRPCProtobufNATSApache Kafka
AI Infrastructure(Learning)
model servinginference systemsKV-cache & batchingGPU-aware schedulingPyTorchCUDA (learning in public)
Security & Zero-Trust
Zero-Trust ArchitecturemTLSRBAC + ABACOAuth2 / OIDCJWTSecrets ManagementAudit Logging
02 / Selected Work

SYSTEMS BUILT

PROJECT.01
Shipped

MERIDIAN

— Distributed Secrets & Consistency Platform

A geo-distributed key-value store where consistency is a per-request choice — not a cluster-wide setting. Strong via Raft quorum, causal via vector clocks, eventual via async gossip. On top: a production-grade secrets platform with WASM-sandboxed policy enforcement, automatic credential rotation, and ML-powered access-anomaly detection. The Raft engine is the foundation — not a dependency.

▸Raft from scratch + Rust LSM storage + WASM policy engine
GoRustPythonRaftWASMgRPCChaos Engineering
PROJECT.02
Partial release

VEYRONIX

— Kubernetes Golden-Path Deployment Platform

A small internal developer platform built around reconciliation. From one plinth.yaml and a single command, it stores desired state, observes what is running, and converges services while providing sensible defaults for reachability, TLS, monitoring, security, rollback, and team isolation. The working vertical slice includes a fake-backend reconciler, queued worker, file-backed state, CLI, HTTP API, Swagger UI, playground, drift repair, rollback, restart recovery, and a Kubernetes adapter with fake-client tests.

▸A restart-safe reconciler that repairs drift
GoKubernetesclient-goReconciliationPlatform EngineeringGitOps
PROJECT.03Partial release

LATTICE

— Distributed Search & Retrieval Platform
▸Hybrid search with explicit coverage during failure
GoRaftOpenSearchKafka
PROJECT.04Shipped

TESSERA

— Multi-Tenant LLM Inference Gateway
▸Token budgets and inference telemetry before the GPU
GoLLM ServingvLLMKServe
PROJECT.05Shipped

SYNAPSE-AI

— Infrastructure Governance Boundary for AI Agents
▸Scoped credentials, blocked actions, durable evidence
GoMCPSPIFFE/SPIREKubernetes
03 / Career

EXPERIENCE

May 2026 — Present
Software & Infrastructure Engineer
Westpay Global Resources · Remote · Contract
  • Contributed to the development of a fintech payments platform, focusing on backend services for identity verification and transaction processing. Implemented secure, idempotent APIs and robust credential management to improve service reliability and security. Participated in the full software development lifecycle, including planning, testing, deployment, and code reviews, ensuring high-quality and maintainable solutions.
Feb 2026 — Present
Founder & CTO
Truth4Daily · Ontario, Canada · Remote
  • Architecting the platform infrastructure — API design, data model, delivery pipeline, and reliability engineering — for a faith-companion platform targeting 685M+ African Christians.
May 2023 — Jun 2025
Software Engineer
Atop Web Technologies · Stockholm, Sweden (Remote)
  • Contributed to the development of a B2B SaaS event streaming platform, focusing on backend services and real-time event infrastructure. Implemented and optimized backend features using NestJS, PostgreSQL, Redis, WebSockets, and Docker, improving data processing efficiency by 30% while enhancing the platform's scalability and reliability. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver role-based workflows for judges, dancers, studio owners, and event organizers, enabling seamless live scoring, event updates, music streaming, and judge verdicts.
Jan 2022 — Aug 2023
Backend Engineer
Taaleem · Casablanca, Morocco (Remote) · Contract
  • Built RESTful backend services with NestJS and PostgreSQL to power an educational platform, enabling features that drove a 25% increase in student enrollment and an auto-grading engine that returned assignment results to 91% of students within 24 hours.
Education
B.Sc. Computer Science
GPA 3.84 / 4.0
University of the People
Pasadena, CA · Expected March 2027
Certifications
Google Cybersecurity Certificate
Threat detection, network security, SIEM tooling, and incident-response fundamentals.
API Security
Securing REST APIs — authn/authz, the OWASP API Top 10, token handling, and rate limiting.
Awards
ACM × CIIED Hackathon 2023 — Top 15 Finalist
14th of 100+ teams. Built a real-time data sync solution under time constraints. Awarded for Technical Execution & Usability.
Mentorship
40+ Engineers Mentored
Backend, frontend, data, and infrastructure. Focus on real-world systems, production tradeoffs, and breaking into the industry from non-traditional backgrounds.
04 / Thinking Out Loud

WRITING

01Building a Scalable Backend in Go Using Microservices2025-03-10→02I Built a Distributed Secrets Platform From Scratch. The Hardest Part Wasn't the Code.2026-06-23→03Build a Real URL Shortener in Go — From One File to Microservices to Serverless2026-06-25→

LET'S
BUILD
SOMETHING.

Open to roles building distributed systems and AI infrastructure. Also available for consulting on systems design and internal platforms.

"For I know the plans I have for you" — Jer. 29:11

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