Amadu Silva Bah | Lead Backend Engineer

Professional Summary

Accomplished Lead Backend/Full-Stack Engineer and DevOps Specialist with over 20 years of experience directing cloud architecture, automating CI/CD pipelines, and modernizing legacy monoliths into scalable microservices.

Professional Experience

Jan 2021 – Present

Senior Cloud Architect & DevOps Lead

Grocery Genius / Chexup

Designing and deploying resilient, cost-optimized AWS ecosystems from the ground up using Terraform.
Transforming legacy environments through full-scale Dockerization and advanced Bash automation.
Implementing deep observability with Sentry and New Relic to maintain peak performance and proactively resolve bottlenecks.
Leveraging AI-augmented workflows (Gemini, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate reverse engineering and system stabilization.

Sep 2016 – Dec 2020

Lead of Shoppable Content Tools

Constant.Co

Architected and led the development of tools for shoppable content integration.
Bridged business goals with technical execution through efficient API and system interface design.

May 2013 – Mar 2014

Senior IT Developer

Powwownow

Involved in architecting, developing, and integrating full-stack applications, APIs, and client-side libraries.
Implemented continuous integration and automated testing using PHPUnit and CasperJS.

Apr 2012 – May 2013

Senior Web Developer

Tangent Snowball

Developed full-stack Symfony and Django applications and APIs.

Aug 2007 – Oct 2010

Web Developer

TWO – Total Web Output

Built enterprise web applications using Symfony 1.4 (Propel and Doctrine ORM).
Led code refactoring and bug fixing initiatives for high-traffic sites.

Key Expertise

Cloud Infrastructure: AWS (VPC, ECS, RDS, S3, IAM), Terraform (IaC), Docker, Kubernetes.
Backend & Full-Stack: PHP 8.x (Symfony, Zend), Node.js, Python (Django), TypeScript.
AI & Automation: Gemini, GitHub Copilot, Advanced Bash Scripting, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
Observability & Performance: New Relic, Sentry, Fastly CDN, CloudWatch.

Historical Portfolio (Selected Projects)

Veigas Imobiliária
Hospital Ordem Terceira
Univantagens
Espaço Hotel

Auto Performance
Mudança Triunfal
Ministério da Justiça (GRAL)
15000 Árvores Timberland

Featured Projects

Djobi Li

An innovative product focused on efficient user authentication and personalized experiences, utilizing Firebase and modern web technologies.

Education

BSc in Computer Science and Engineering
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) - Technical University of Lisbon