Systems Developer & Cloud Architect

Hi, I'm Smit

Systems-focused developer specializing in distributed architectures, cloud infrastructure, and backend systems.

Smit Gabani - Systems Developer & Cloud Architect based in Toronto

About Me

Systems-focused developer specializing in distributed architectures, cloud infrastructure, and backend systems.

Expert in designing scalable microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized deployments.

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner()
  • AWS Certified Cloud Developer()

Education

Advanced Diploma, Computer Programming and Analysis • Seneca College

Experience

My professional journey

Systems Developer & Cloud Consultant

Freelance

  • Architected and deployed microservices-based backend systems using Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS ECS, achieving 99.9% uptime.
  • Designed event-driven architectures with message queues (SQS, RabbitMQ) for real-time data processing pipelines.
  • Implemented infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, reducing deployment time by 60% and ensuring environment consistency.
  • Built automated CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and GitLab CI for seamless multi-environment deployments.

Backend & Infrastructure Developer

Interact Health PRO, Toronto

  • Developed RESTful APIs and backend services using Node.js and Express, handling 10K+ daily requests.
  • Configured AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront) achieving 30% performance improvement.
  • Implemented authentication and authorization systems using JWT and AWS Cognito.
  • Set up monitoring and alerting with CloudWatch, reducing incident response time by 40%.

Projects

Some of my technical work

Showing 4 of 4 projects

Cloud & DevOps · 2023

Fragments - Cloud Microservice

Built a cloud-native microservice for an automotive company to handle text/image fragments from IoT devices, mobile apps, and automated cameras.

Implemented RESTful API with format conversion, AWS deployment, and full CI/CD pipeline using Docker and ECS.

  • Docker
  • AWS EC2
  • S3
  • DynamoDB
  • ECS
  • +5 more
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Developer Tools · 2023

Silkgenerator - CLI Tool

Built a Node.js CLI static site generator with modular architecture and plugin system.

Implemented file system operations, template parsing, and automated build pipelines.

  • Node.js
  • CLI
  • File System API
  • Template Engines
  • NPM
  • +2 more
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Full-Stack · 2022

myLibrary - Full-Stack System

Designed multi-database architecture with MongoDB for users and PostgreSQL for transactional book data.

Implemented scheduled jobs with Node Schedule and automated email notifications via Nodemailer.

  • Angular
  • Node.js
  • MongoDB
  • PostgreSQL
  • Cron Jobs
  • +2 more
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Backend · 2022

myStore - E-commerce Backend

Built secure backend with session management, cart persistence, and order processing system.

Implemented RESTful API with authentication middleware and database transactions.

  • Node.js
  • Express
  • MongoDB
  • JWT
  • REST API
  • +2 more
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Technical Skills

Technologies and tools I work with

Systems

  • Microservices Architecture
  • Distributed Systems
  • API Design
  • System Integration
  • Event-Driven Architecture

Languages

  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Java
  • Go
  • Bash

Backend

  • Node.js
  • Express.js
  • REST API
  • GraphQL
  • gRPC
  • Message Queues

Databases

  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • DynamoDB
  • Redis
  • Elasticsearch

Cloud

  • AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS)
  • Azure
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform

DevOps

  • CI/CD Pipelines
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • Jenkins
  • Infrastructure as Code

Tools

  • Git
  • Linux
  • Nginx
  • Postman
  • JIRA
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana

Community & Open Source

Contributing to the developer community

GitHub

@smitgabani

Repositories
32
Contributions (past year)
345
Followers
6
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Stack Overflow

Helping developers worldwide

Reputation
370
Answers
21
Badges
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Latest Writing

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Interested in working together?

Let's build scalable systems and robust infrastructure.

gabanismit11@gmail.com

+1-647-510-6678

Toronto, Canada

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