Staff Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience designing, building, and operating high-throughput distributed systems. Led production pipelines processing over 1 billion events daily, developed Kubernetes tooling adopted across organization, and driven cross-team infrastructure and reliability initiatives. Experienced in backend systems, event-driven architectures, cloud infrastructure, and production operations.
Languages & backend: TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, Kotlin, Go, Scala, Rust, Clojure, Haskell · JVM (Spring, Quarkus), Node.js (NestJS, Express.js), REST APIs, microservices, distributed and event-driven systems.
Data, infrastructure & practices: Kafka/Kafka Streams, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Couchbase, Cassandra, DynamoDB · Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP · OpenTelemetry, end-to-end testing, CI/CD, production operations, incident response.
Software Engineer → Senior Software Engineer → Staff Software Engineer
Software Engineer · Civil Aviation Research and Application Center · Apr – Aug 2017
Built a Java/Kotlin tool for managing, archiving, and automating aviation test results with collaborative workflows.
Software Engineer Intern · Savronik · Jun – Sep 2016
Built a C++/Qt IDE and GUI designer for the D4D embedded graphics library, including C code generation and translation tooling.
More open-source projects and technical writing: github.com/isamert · isamert.net
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering
Computer Engineering · Exchange semester