Senior Python & Django Architect | Distributed Systems Engineer | Cloud-Native Backend Specialist
Designing and leading scalable backend platforms with 20+ years of experience in production environments.
I am a Senior Backend Engineer specialized in Django-based architectures and distributed systems.
For over two decades, I have designed, built, and led high-availability platforms with strong emphasis on scalability, reliability, and infrastructure automation.
My core strength is backend architecture — especially Django systems operating at scale.
Backend is my primary expertise and architectural foundation.
- Advanced Django applications
- Django REST Framework (favorite, but I know many others)
- Complex domain modeling
- Multi-service architecture
- High-throughput APIs (10k+ req/min systems)
- Celery distributed task orchestration
- Queue-based processing (Redis, SQS, AMQ)
- Performance optimization
- Middleware design considerations
- Scalable authentication & enterprise integrations
I focus on clean architecture, maintainable systems, and long-term scalability.
- Microservices architecture
- Kubernetes (EKS)
- Docker-based deployments
- Autoscaling strategies
- Infrastructure as Code
- CI/CD pipelines (GitLab)
- Observability & monitoring strategies
- Cost allocation & infrastructure optimization
I design systems that are resilient, fault-tolerant, and production-ready.
- AWS (EKS, S3, RDS, SNS, SQS, AMQ)
- Data pipelines
- Pandas-based data processing
- Real-time ingestion systems
- Queue-driven workflows
- Distributed processing strategies
When building systems, I prioritize:
- Scalability
- Observability
- Cost efficiency
- Reliability engineering
- Domain clarity
- Infrastructure automation
- Production-grade robustness
I am actively evolving in AI-driven backend systems, focusing on:
- LLM integrations in production
- RAG architectures
- LangChain-based orchestration
- AI-powered internal tools
- Data Science Ops (DSOps / LLMOps fundamentals)
- AWS SageMaker experimentation
While AI is a growing focus, my foundation remains strong backend and distributed systems engineering.
- Advanced backend architecture
- Scalable Django systems
- Distributed processing at scale
- AI integration into production platforms
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhenter/
- Email: rafael@henter.com.br