Shakir Apellidos

Senior Backend Developer with 3+ years building scalable, event-driven systems across TravelTech and IoT. Delivered high-throughput APIs, real-time data pipelines, and distributed architectures using Node.js, NestJS, Kafka, Redis, and PostgreSQL.

Senior Backend Developer - Maujitrip Ltd. - Noida, Uttar Pradesh

(2026-04)

• Modernizing a legacy travel platform with 2.4M+ hotel records, building inventory, pricing, search, and partner extranet modules using Node.js and NestJS
• Architected event-driven backend services with Kafka, Redis, BullMQ, and PostgreSQL to ensure high scalability and fault tolerance
• Leveraged Claude Code as an AI coding agent to accelerate development velocity across core platform modules

Backend Developer - Holmium Technologies Pvt Ltd. - Noida, Uttar Pradesh

(2023-06 - 2026-03)

• Built Solar-LogIQ and RECD-LogIQ pipelines using Node.js and KafkaJS, processing 2M+ daily IoT requests from solar plants with high reliability
• Designed a config-driven dashboard builder, RBAC framework, and custom KPI system — cutting customization effort by 60%
• Optimized MongoDB aggregations and BullMQ alarm systems, slashing API response times from 2s to under 400ms and reducing manual monitoring by 70%

Master of Computer Applications - MCA - Maharaja Agrasen Himalayan Garhwal University (MAHGU) (2020-08 - 2022-07)