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Houman Eskandani — Backend & Cloud Platform Engineer. Building high-security, multi-tenant APIs and cloud platforms in Go, GraphQL, Python, Java, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes. Currently shipping the GraphQL platform at The Vport; previously at IDEMIA on a card-personalization platform serving tier-1 U.S. banks.

Currently at The Vport, working on the GraphQL platform. Three years before that at IDEMIA on a card-personalization platform serving tier-1 U.S. banks. On the side I'm building AI agents — most recently ApplyAgent, an autonomous job-application bot powered by Claude.

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(01) About

Ibuildthepartsmostpeopleneversee—andfeelonlywhentheybreak.

Houman Eskandani
Houman Eskandani●

I'm a backend engineer with 5+ years building high-security, multi-tenant APIs — most of that time at IDEMIA, on the card-issuance platform that ships secure card transactions in production for tier-1 U.S. financial institutions.

Today I'm at The Vport, working on the GraphQL platform behind their VR concert streaming product — backend architecture, security, and the kind of observability that lets a small team sleep at night.

On the side I build with AI. Most recently ApplyAgent, an autonomous agent that fills out and submits real job applications by reasoning over live DOM with Claude and Playwright.

I obsess over the boring guarantees — idempotency, ordering, durability — because that's where products live or die at scale.

  • 5+

    yrs in backend

  • Zero-downtime

    deploys

  • Tier-1

    banking clients

  • Multi-tenant

    GraphQL platform

Experience

  • Apr 2025 — PresentSoftware Engineer — Backend / PlatformThe VportRemote
  • Feb 2022 — Mar 2025Software Engineer II — Card PersonalizationIDEMIALos Angeles, CA
  • Sep 2021 — Feb 2022Lead Backend EngineerSpotlist IncNew York City, NY
  • Sep 2020 — Sep 2021Backend Engineer InternSpotlist IncNew York City, NY

Education

  • Aug 2017 — Jul 2021B.S. Computer ScienceUniversity of California, Riverside
  • Aug 2015 — Jul 2017A.S. Computer ScienceIrvine Valley College

(02) Selected Work

ThingsIhelpedgettoproduction.

Distributed systems✺Event-driven architecture✺Postgres internals✺Kafka✺ClickHouse✺gRPC✺Idempotency✺Backpressure✺Observability✺Performance tuning✺

(03) Capabilities

ToolsandpatternsIreachfor.

01 · Languages

  • →Go
  • →Python
  • →Java
  • →TypeScript
  • →SQL
  • →C / C++

02 · Backend & APIs

  • →GraphQL (gqlgen)
  • →REST
  • →gRPC
  • →FastAPI
  • →Django

03 · Data

  • →PostgreSQL (GORM)
  • →MongoDB
  • →MySQL

04 · Cloud & DevOps

  • →AWS (EC2, S3, RDS)
  • →GCP (Cloud SQL, GCS, GKE)
  • →Kubernetes
  • →Docker
  • →Prometheus
  • →CI/CD

05 · Security

  • →OAuth 2.0
  • →JWT
  • →RBAC
  • →MFA / TOTP
  • →PCI-DSS

(04) Contact

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Based in Irvine, CA · Remote-friendly. Open to remote, hybrid, or on-site backend / platform roles.