Mohamad Kabalan

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Backend/data engineer experienced building enterprise community-platform services for high-traffic global clients, using Python (FastAPI/Django) on Docker/Kubernetes with PostgreSQL/Redis. Has delivered AWS EKS + Terraform/CI-CD deployments with strong security practices (Secrets Manager/SSM, IAM/IRSA) and has hands-on ETL (AWS Glue), legacy modernization, and incident ownership with measurable performance gains (~30% faster queries).

Key Strengths

• Built and maintained high-traffic, enterprise-grade Python backend services (FastAPI/Django) on Kubernetes
• Implemented robust API reliability patterns: JWT/OAuth2 auth, idempotency, retries with exponential backoff, timeouts, centralized exception handling
• AWS EKS deployments with Terraform IaC and CI/CD automation for repeatable environments
• Secure secrets/config management using AWS Secrets Manager + SSM Parameter Store with IAM least-privilege and IRSA; runtime injection and rotation
• Designed ETL/data processing workflows with schema versioning, data quality checks, and idempotent retryable runs
• Modernized monoliths into modular services using parallel runs, automated parity testing, feature flags, and phased stakeholder sign-off
• SQL performance tuning using execution plans, composite indexes, partitioning, batching, and caching; reported ~30% response-time improvement
• Owned production batch/pipeline incident end-to-end: detection via alerts, log/metric triage, mitigation, and preventive guardrails

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