Leila Kowalski
Senior Backend Engineer
leila.kowalski@example.com | Ahmedabad, India

SUMMARY
Senior Backend Engineer with 10 years of experience. I enjoy mentoring and sharing what I learn.

EXPERIENCE
Senior Backend Engineer — Urban Nest Homes (2023 – Present)
- Designed a worker pool in Go that processes 1 million events per day from Kafka.
- Built Go services that handle 3,000 requests per second with p95 latency under 40 ms.

Backend Engineer — Willow Education (2018 – 2023)
- Built Go services that handle 3,000 requests per second with p95 latency under 40 ms.
- Added tracing and Prometheus metrics, cutting incident debug time by half.
- Mentored 3 engineers moving from Python to Go.

Software Engineer — Urban Nest Homes (2016 – 2018)
- Tuned PostgreSQL queries and cut a key API from 800 ms to 90 ms.
- Designed a worker pool in Go that processes 1 million events per day from Kafka.


SKILLS
Go, PostgreSQL, Docker, REST APIs, Git, Linux, gRPC, Prometheus, AWS, Terraform, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes

EDUCATION
B.E. in Information Technology, Riverdale College of Engineering (2016)
