Meheret Alemu

Building scalable systems · Exploring ML

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Building systems that matter.

I'm a backend engineer who thrives at the intersection of distributed systems and machine learning. I design APIs that scale, train models that generalise, and write code that doesn't wake me up at 3am. Currently obsessed with high-throughput data pipelines and efficient inference serving.

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  • rolebackend_engineer
  • focusdistributed_systems · ml_infra
  • languagesGo · Python · TypeScript
  • statusopen_to_work

Tools of the trade.

Backend

GoPythonNode.jsgRPCREST APIsPostgreSQLRedisKafkaDockerKubernetes

ML & Data

PyTorchscikit-learnPandasNumPyMLflowTriton Inference ServerHuggingFace

DevOps & Cloud

AWSGCPTerraformCI/CDPrometheusGrafanaGitHub Actions

Things I've built.

01

DistroQ

A high-throughput distributed task queue built in Go with exactly-once delivery semantics. Handles 100k+ messages/sec using Kafka and Redis for deduplication.

GoKafkaRedisPostgreSQLDocker
02

InferKit

A lightweight ML model serving framework that wraps Triton Inference Server with a unified REST/gRPC gateway, autoscaling, and A/B testing support.

PythonFastAPITritongRPCKubernetes
03

ChronoGraph

Real-time anomaly detection for time-series metrics using an LSTM-based model served via a streaming pipeline. Integrates directly with Prometheus and Grafana.

PythonPyTorchKafkaPrometheusGrafana
04

VaultSync

A secrets synchronisation service that propagates Vault secrets to Kubernetes namespaces, AWS Parameter Store, and GCP Secret Manager — with audit logging.

GoVaultAWSGCPKubernetes

Where I've worked.

2023 – Present

Senior Backend Engineer

Acme Corp

Led the redesign of the core payments microservice, cutting p99 latency from 800ms to 45ms. Built an ML-driven fraud detection pipeline that reduced chargebacks by 34%.

GoKafkaPostgreSQLPythonAWS
2021 – 2023

Backend Engineer

DataBridge

Designed and shipped a real-time data ingestion platform processing 5TB/day. Introduced gRPC across internal services and reduced inter-service latency by 60%.

PythongRPCKafkaRedisGCP
2019 – 2021

Junior Software Engineer

StartupXYZ

Built REST APIs for a B2B SaaS platform serving 200+ enterprise clients. Contributed to the ML feature store that powered personalised recommendations.

Node.jsPostgreSQLDockerscikit-learn

Let's build something remarkable.

Open to backend roles, ML infra challenges, and interesting problems.
If you have one, drop me a line.