r/PythonJobs • u/thepsalmistx • 6d ago

[For Hire] Senior Backend Engineer (Python/Django, AWS Certified) — 7 years, open to contract or full-time, remote

Hello all,

I'm a Software Engineer with 7 years of experience building production systems in Python, most recently across SEO analytics, civic-tech, and AI infrastructure work. Open to remote contract or full-time roles.

What I bring:

  • Django, DRF, FastAPI, Celery in production, across SaaS, civic-tech, and data platforms
  • PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Redis, including performance tuning and cluster architecture
  • AWS (Certified Solutions Architect), Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes at the operational level
  • Recent focus on LLM orchestration and RAG pipelines: built a multi-provider routing layer across OpenAI/Anthropic, and a self-hosted Ollama/OpenWebUI platform for a civic-tech org
  • Production reliability work: incident response, distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Loki, Sentry), diagnosing real bugs like race conditions under load

A couple of things I've built:

  • Architected an 8-node Elasticsearch cluster with a custom benchmark harness to validate it before it took production traffic
  • Contributed to Mediacloud Story-Indexer, an open-source pipeline indexing hundreds of millions of news stories

Based in Nairobi, Kenya (GMT+3), comfortable working across time zones with distributed teams. Open-source contributor to Django and CKAN.

Portfolio: xodhiambo.com

GitHub: github.com/thepsalmist

Happy to share a resume or talk specifics, DM me or comment below.

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u/my_peen_is_clean 6d ago

solid background. maybe cross post to r/forhire and hang around niche discords too. networking still works better than just posts here