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Open to opportunities · Hyderabad, India

Mohammad Siraj

Backend & Cloud Engineer · Go · AWS · Kubernetes

I design reliable backends and cloud-native platforms — from Go APIs and event-driven services to Kubernetes deployments and production observability.

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years experience
5+
years experience
certified
CKAD
certified
& FedRAMP compliant systems
FIPS
& FedRAMP compliant systems
txns/min engine built
10M
txns/min engine built

01 · About

Backend depth. Cloud fluency.

I work across backend engineering and cloud infrastructure: designing Go APIs, microservices, and event-driven distributed systems, then taking them through CI/CD, Kubernetes deployment, and production monitoring. I care about clear interfaces, zero-downtime releases, and systems that stay reliable under load.

My cloud experience includes AWS EKS, infrastructure-as-code, auto-scaling platforms, and delivery pipelines at Siemens, alongside high-throughput fintech services at Winjit. Today, at IBM Cloud Key Protect, I bring that backend and cloud foundation to FIPS and FedRAMP-compliant key management services with HSM integration.

I'm based in Hyderabad, India. My path into software started with robotics and IoT at NIT Nagpur, where I led the Robo Bank Club — and I still love building things that touch the physical world.

B.Tech, Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (NIT), Nagpur

Graduated July 2021

  • CKAD – Certified Kubernetes Application Developer2023
  • DeepLearning.AI TensorFlow Developer & Neural Networks and Deep Learning2022

Leadership & Achievements

Head of Robo Bank Club, NIT Nagpur

Led the robotics club; organised workshops and inter-college competitions.

Intern, Vijayawada Thermal Power Plant

Deployed IoT sensors and built real-time dashboards for power generation monitoring.

Mime Theatre (Halla Bol), NIT Nagpur

Stage performer — the human side of the engineer.

02 · Experience

Where I've shipped.

  1. IBM — Cloud Key Protect

    Apr 2025 – Present

    Software Engineer · Hyderabad

    • Build and maintain Go microservices for a secure key management service under FIPS & FedRAMP requirements.
    • Designed a KMIP-based secure key migration system that reduced cryptographic operation latency by 10%.
    • Integrated HSMs for encryption key operations; maintain key lifecycle services on Kubernetes.
    GoKMIPHSMKubernetesIBM Cloud

  2. Siemens

    Oct 2023 – Apr 2025

    Software Engineer · Pune

    • Smart Infrastructure backend: migrated a monolith to distributed Go + AWS, improving concurrent throughput by 15%.
    • Cut deployment time by 30% with CloudFormation infrastructure-as-code.
    • Architected an auto-scaling Node-RED platform on EKS with ALB, CodePipeline and CloudWatch.
    GoAWSEKSCloudFormationNode-RED

  3. Winjit Technologies

    Jun 2022 – Sep 2023

    Software Engineer · Hyderabad & Nashik

    • Built a CBDC transaction engine handling 10M transactions/min in Go using the UTXO model on Kubernetes.
    • Built retail reconciliation microservices for RBI, cutting discrepancy resolution time by 50%.
    • Developed crypto exchange modules — order matching, wallet, blockchain events — in Go and TypeScript.
    GoKubernetesUTXOTypeScriptKafka

  4. Larsen & Toubro

    Aug 2021 – Jun 2022

    Graduate Engineering Trainee · Chennai

    • Integrated IoT surveillance into smart city dashboards, increasing coverage by 20%.
    • Built Python ML models for smart meter load forecasting with 25% better accuracy.
    PythonIoTML

03 · Skills

Backend & cloud expertise.

Backend & Architecture

Go (Golang)CoreMicroservicesEvent-Driven SystemsDistributed SystemsRESTgRPCAPI DesignKafkaConcurrency

Databases

PostgreSQLMySQLRedis

Cloud & Platform Engineering

AWS EKSLambdaALBCloudWatchCodePipelineCloudFormationIBM CloudKubernetesDockerHelmTerraformJenkinsCI/CDGitPrometheusGrafanaLinux

Security & Compliance

FIPS & FedRAMPHSM IntegrationKMIPKey ManagementCryptography

Other Languages

TypeScriptJavaScriptNode.jsPythonC++Bash

04 · Work

Featured work.

IBM Proprietary

KMIP Secure Key Migration

Moving encryption keys between systems without exposure. KMIP-based pipeline with HSM-backed operations cut crypto latency 10%.

GoKMIPHSM
Case study on request
Winjit Proprietary

CBDC Transaction Engine

A central-bank digital currency core needing extreme throughput. UTXO-model engine in Go sustaining 10M transactions/min.

GoUTXOKubernetes
Case study on request
Siemens Proprietary

Auto-scaling Node-RED on EKS

Multi-tenant IoT flows that had to scale on demand. EKS + ALB with CodePipeline delivery and CloudWatch observability.

AWS EKSALBCodePipeline
Case study on request
Siemens Proprietary

Monolith → Distributed Go

Decomposed a smart-building monolith into Go services on AWS: +15% throughput, 30% faster deployments.

GoAWSCloudFormation
Case study on request

Personal & academic

Academic

Autonomous SLAM Indoor Navigation Car

SLAM-based indoor localization with LIDAR sensor fusion for autonomous navigation and real-time obstacle avoidance.

C++ROSLIDAR
Repo link coming soon
Personal

Image Captioning System

CNN-RNN pipeline with attention generating captions from images, evaluated via BLEU score.

TensorFlowVGG16LSTMPython
Repo link coming soon
More on GitHub

05 · Writing

From the blog.

More on Medium

Open to Consulting & Collaboration

  • Go backend & microservices architecture
  • Kubernetes & cloud-native delivery
  • Secure key management & compliance-aware systems
  • Event-driven system design
Let's talk

06 · Contact

Let's build something reliable.

Whether it's a role, a collaboration, or just a conversation about distributed systems and key management — my inbox is open.

mail2mrsiraj@gmail.com

Hyderabad, India