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Nick Joel Gouend

Nick Joel Gouend

Fullstack Software Engineer

Open to opportunities
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LinkedIn Joel Gouend
GitHub Maester-Khris
Location Toronto, Ontario
Java Spring Kafka AWS K8s LLM Ops
Community Involvement
AWS JAM
AWS JAM April Jam Session
3rd Place · AWS Gen AI Jam
Team
NPower × Google Google Toronto Office
Google Google I/O Extended
Google I/O
Community
George Brown College · Waterfront Campus Networking Break · Toronto Tech Week 2025
Community Group Photo
HackTheBrain Idea Forge · Toronto Tech Week 2025
Pitch Project Pitch · Toronto Tech Week 2025
Community HackTheBrain · Closing talk
AI Camp AI Summit
Coding Shut Up & Code · Downtown TO
Microsoft DevOps Day
Technical Stack

Areas of Expertise

Backend Engineering

Backend Engineering

  • —API Design REST at production grade — idempotency, versioning, ETag, conditional requests & cache semantics
  • —Performance high-concurrency systems, CPU vs I/O thread modelling, distributed caching, cache stampede prevention
  • —Data Layer query optimization, batch processing, indexing strategies, denormalization & partitioning decisions
  • —Debugging stress testing, memory leak investigation, profiling under load
Spring Boot NestJS FastAPI Redis Kafka PostgreSQL
System Architecture

System Architecture

  • —Distributed Systems event-driven design, CQRS, Transactional Outbox, eventual consistency tradeoffs
  • —Scalability horizontal scaling patterns, async messaging, backpressure management
  • —API Contracts schema-first design, breaking change governance, gRPC & WebSocket streaming
  • —Reliability circuit breakers, retry policies, graceful degradation
Kafka gRPC Event Sourcing CQRS Outbox
AI Systems Integration

AI Systems Integration

  • —Production LLMs integrating & operating models in live systems — latency budgeting, fallback routing, cost control
  • —Agentic Pipelines multi-agent orchestration, self-correction loops, tool-use & memory management
  • —Retrieval RAG architecture, semantic hybrid search, vector store selection & tuning
  • —Data feature engineering pipelines, workflow orchestration, batch inference
LangGraph RAG Qdrant Airflow Groq
Cloud & Observability

Cloud & Observability

  • —Infrastructure cloud-native deployments, container orchestration, IaC — built to survive on-call at 2am
  • —CI/CD automated pipelines with build, test, security scan & semantic versioning gates
  • —Observability distributed tracing, structured logging, SLO-based alerting — finding the signal in the noise
  • —Incident RCA discipline, runbook authoring, post-mortem culture
AWS Terraform K8s OpenTelemetry Grafana Splunk
Credentials

Industry Credentials

AWS
AWS Solutions Architect Associate
verified
Oracle
Oracle Java Programmer I Associate
verified
MongoDB RAG Skill Badge
verified
Anthropic AI Foundations Badge
verified
Azure AI
Azure AI Fundamentals Microsoft
verified
Building with Claude Anthropic
verified
Background

Experience & Education

Work Wiconet

Fullstack Software Engineer

Jan 2024 — Sep 2024

Early-stage research startup applying ML and computer networking to real-world problems. Owned the full delivery cycle from API to UI in a fast, research-driven environment.

Python React Node.js
Education University of Yaoundé I

Master's — Computer Science

2021 — 2023

Algorithms & data structures, software testing, TDD, architectural design patterns, Agile, data science and ML fundamentals.

Algorithms TDD ML Architecture
Work Firesoftware

Fullstack Engineer → Project Lead

Sep 2021 — May 2024

Joined as an intern, grew into delivery ownership. Led client meetings, managed the full software lifecycle and drove technical decisions across Java backend and Angular frontend.

Java Angular PHP
Education NPower Canada

Junior Data Analyst Program

Apr 2025 — Jul 2025

Intensive training in data analytics — visualization, storytelling with data, exploration and data-driven decision making.

Data Viz Analytics Storytelling
Work

My Portfolio

Commitr: Developer Focus & Session Tracker
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REACT.JS · NODE.JS · POSTGRESQL

Commitr: Developer Focus & Session Tracker

Developer focus tracker with GitHub-style activity heatmap

Fullstack
AI Evaluator: Agentic Observability Platform
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AGENTIC WORKFLOWS · QDRANT VECTOR DB · LANGGRAPH

AI Evaluator: Agentic Observability Platform

Agentic RAG evaluation suite with HITL dashboard

AI System
Postair: High-Throughput Content Engine
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NODE.JS · REDIS STREAMS · EDA

Postair: High-Throughput Content Engine

Sub-50ms p99 content distribution with Transactional Outbox

Backend System
AI Healthcare City Monitor
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AI · AWS CLOUD ML DEPLOYMENT · DYNAMIC SCHEDULING

AI Healthcare City Monitor

Real-time ER congestion prediction across Toronto hospitals

Cloud ML
AI Healthcare sickness severity classification
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GCP · VERTEX AI · LLM FINE-TUNING

AI Healthcare sickness severity classification

Gemini 2.5 Flash fine-tuned on Vertex AI for severity triage

ML Deployment
Firo: Financial CSR Bot
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AWS BEDROCK · REACT.JS

Firo: Financial CSR Bot

Gen-AI assistant for banking CSR reps with confidence scores

Conversational AI
Firo ML: User interaction topic classification
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DATA SCIENCE · MACHINE LEARNING · NLP

Firo ML: User interaction topic classification

Finance topic classifier on 50k transcripts with SBERT

Data Science
Remote System Monitoring
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PYTHON · DJANGO · KUBERNETES

Remote System Monitoring

Streaming server metrics dashboard on Django + K8s + CodePipeline

DevOps
Taskalert Full UI
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ANGULAR 19 · MICROFRONTEND · NATIVE FEDERATION

Taskalert Full UI

Angular 19 microfrontend with native federation and NgRx

Fullstack
Power BI Dashboard on Public Dataset
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DATA ANALYSIS · POWER BI · VISUALIZATION

Power BI Dashboard on Public Dataset

Power BI dashboard with storytelling on public dataset

Data Visualization
Reactive Springboot Skillrater App
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JAVA · SPRINGBOOT · REST API

Reactive Springboot Skillrater App

Reactive Spring Boot with SSE and multi-threaded live voting

Backend System
Insight Hub: Springboot Microservices
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SPRINGBOOT · MSSQL · T‑SQL

Insight Hub: Springboot Microservices

Microservices issue tracker with Kafka, Resilience4J and LDAP

Distributed System
Taskalert v2: Frontend Application
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ANGULAR · ANGULAR MATERIAL · NETLIFY

Taskalert v2: Frontend Application

MEAN stack task manager with NgRx and PusherJS notifications

Fullstack
Taskalert v2: Backend Application
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PYTHON · DJANGO · MONGODB

Taskalert v2: Backend Application

Django REST backend with RabbitMQ and WebSocket channels

Backend API
Python AI Real‑Time Chat Message Filtering
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PYTHON · DJANGO · NODE.JS

Python AI Real‑Time Chat Message Filtering

Kafka-powered AI agent monitoring live chat for policy compliance

AI Pipeline
Python Asynchronous Web Data Scraper
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PYTHON · DJANGO · ASGI

Python Asynchronous Web Data Scraper

Async Django scraper with Selenium for dynamic JS-rendered sites

Data Engineering
Python Advanced NLP Text Processing
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PYTHON · FLASK · DAPHNE

Python Advanced NLP Text Processing

BERT-based text summarization and contextual keyword augmentation

NLP Research
Mobile Application UI & Interaction Design
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FIGMA

Mobile Application UI & Interaction Design

High-fidelity Figma prototype with mobile interaction patterns

UI/UX Design
Contact Let's build together. Open to roles, collabs & good conversations.
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