Fadhili J.
Senior Backend Engineer | Go, Rust, Kafka & AI Integrations
I build and fix backend systems, event-driven pipelines and AI integrations with Go, Rust and Kafka. My work spans Microsoft, BBC News and client products that need reliable APIs, clear diagnostics and maintainable code. Top Rated | $100K+ earned on Upwork WHAT I CAN HELP YOU DELIVER - Go backend development: APIs, gRPC services, concurrency, integrations and debugging. - Kafka and data pipelines: producers/consumers, Kafka Connect, PostgreSQL integration and stream-processing troubleshooting. - Platform reliability: deployment tooling, observability, performance improvements and cloud cost reduction. - AI integrations: Rust/Python agent services, scoped tool access, document retrieval and database-backed agent context. RELEVANT RESULTS - BBC News: built and maintained a multi-region Go messaging platform processing approximately 5 million messages daily. - Microsoft: built a Go automation framework adopted by 38+ operational jobs; reduced one task from over an hour to under 10 minutes. - Microsoft: built an aggregation framework that cut development effort from weeks to approximately one hour and job runtime from 60 to 22 minutes. - Recent client work: Go hotfixes and feature delivery, a Kafka/PostgreSQL JDBC connector, and SuperPlane integrations with AWS SNS and Dash0. These engagements received 5/5 feedback. CURRENT WORK At LightspaceHQ, I am building an AI agent platform with a Rust control API, Python runtime and Astro/TypeScript workspace. Implemented capabilities include tenant isolation, tool permissions, execution budgets, document-search integration and scheduled PostgreSQL context refresh. CORE STACK Go, Rust, Python, Scala, TypeScript; Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis and Elasticsearch; AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform; OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and Grafana. I also spoke at Kafka Summit London and maintain shared Go Kafka and logging libraries. Send me the system or integration you need help with, the current problem and your delivery priorities. We can define a focused first milestone and clear acceptance criteria.
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $4k
Billed in all: $155,146$155k
$4k in the last 6 months
Across 31 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 13% in Golang
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