Backend & full-stack engineer · Irvine, California

Syed Omer
Ahmer

Syed Omer Ahmer
UC IrvineSoftware EngineeringAWS CertifiedFull-stack · DevOps · Cloud

01 / About

Engineering with
range and intent.

Profile / Background

01 — Practice

I’m a software engineer who builds backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and full-stack products from first principles through production.

02 — Focus

My work spans TypeScript, Go, Python, React, Next.js, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, AWS, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes—with a focus on reliable automation and explainable systems.

03 — Education

I earned a B.S. in Software Engineering from the University of California, Irvine in June 2026.

AWS credentials

Solutions Architect — Associate DevOps Engineer — Professional

02 / Work

Selected
experience.

Featured role / Sep 2025 — Jun 2026

TAMS — Travel & Meeting Society · Remote

Backend Engineer

Built an auditable multi-agent hotel procurement pipeline backed by Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and structured analytics.

  • Built a multi-agent pipeline spanning Discovery, Evaluation, Pricing, and Explanation, with auditable decision traces backed by a Python/FastAPI REST API.
  • Converted raw spend data into procurement signals with Pandas cohort analysis, IQR confidence bands, and Amadeus GDS market data.
  • Led a five-dimension vendor scoring framework covering price, location, program fit, compliance, and service quality using Pydantic v2 schemas and weighted scoring.
  • Built document ingestion and PostgreSQL pipelines that normalized varied RFP responses and efficiently retrieved thousands of historical quotes.
Travel and Meeting Society logo
01Discovery
02Evaluation
03Pricing
04Explanation

Auditable decision traces · Python / FastAPI · Pydantic · PostgreSQL

2 weeksRFP lifecycle, down from 6–12 months
10k–50kspend-data rows analyzed per cycle
3–10shortlisted vendors per cycle

02 / Jan 2025 — Jun 2025

IntualAI

Fullstack Engineer · Santa Cruz, CA

Built AWS infrastructure, automation, deployment workflows, and secure developer access for a multi-tier microservices SaaS platform.

  • Reduced service interruptions by 70% with a Go Lambda and EventBridge workflow that refreshed Airtable webhooks and API tokens automatically.
  • Provisioned the core AWS network with CDK and supported Kubernetes-based microservices deployment workflows.
  • Implemented IAM Identity Center least-privilege access and temporary developer credentials.
  • Designed AWS CodePipeline CI/CD gates using Jest and React Testing Library.

03 / Aug 2023 — Oct 2024

Nanotechnology Lab at UC Berkeley

Software Engineer Intern · Berkeley, CA

Led the CS team’s web and backend efforts for the lab’s public-facing research platform and real-time sensor visualization tooling.

  • Built a WCAG-compliant React, Express, MongoDB, and TypeScript application used by 50+ researchers and students.
  • Built a Python/Flask API for real-time carbon nanotube sensor readings and rendered live V-C curves and response graphs with Chart.js.

03 / Projects

Built to be
used.

01 / LLM tooling · Developer infrastructure · Jun 2026

Driftguard

A prompt-versioning and selective evaluation system that treats LLM prompt changes like schema migrations.

Rust · PostgreSQL/pgvector · sqlx · OpenAI API · Next.js · TypeScript · GitHub Actions
  • Built a CLI that diffs prompt changes and uses embedding similarity to identify potentially affected evaluation cases.
  • Shipped a dashboard for the prompt registry, structural diffs, evaluation runs, and a live precision/recall curve.
  • Designed a ground-truth validation pipeline with full regression suites, an LLM judge, and threshold-sweep measurement.
  • Built a GitHub Action that runs selected evaluations on pull requests and posts a pass/fail gating comment.

Driftguard / System flow

01Prompt diff
02Similarity selector
03Targeted evals
04PR gate

02 / AI infrastructure · Cloud architecture · Jan 2026

Terrarium

A visual, AI-powered AWS infrastructure designer that generates, validates, and remediates Terraform configurations.

React · TypeScript · Go · Python · LangGraph · Anthropic API
  • Built a React Flow canvas with schema-driven configuration, validated connections, live cost estimates, and Supabase project storage.
  • Added Claude-powered Terraform generation with Monaco preview and export.
  • Architected Go and FastAPI services with LangGraph agents for HCL generation, Terraform validation, and an automated remediation loop.
  • Developed a review agent combining deterministic security and reliability checks with structured LLM analysis.

Terrarium / System flow

01Visual canvas
02HCL generation
03Validation
04Remediation
Contact / Open channel

04 / Contact

Have something
worth building?

I’m always interested in thoughtful software, ambitious teams, and conversations about what’s next.

Start a conversation
Emailomerahmer918@gmail.com LinkedIn GitHub