Basit Tijani
Software Engineer specialized in backend systems. I build production-grade platforms — things that handle real load, fail gracefully, and scale without drama.
Most recently I built ARGUS, a telemetry ingestion engine processing 8,000–15,000 events/sec on a single VM, and Sentinel-AI, a multi-tenant LLM gateway that cuts AI inference costs by up to 90% through intelligent routing and semantic caching.
I'm drawn to the hard parts — concurrency, event-driven architecture, and systems that have to be right under pressure. I wrote about some of those problems here. If you want to work together or just talk systems, reach out on LinkedIn or email.
Work
Backend Engineer
A production-grade, multi-tenant behavioral and system event ingestion platform. Built to handle high-velocity telemetry data — page views, clicks, API latency, health metrics — via a fully reactive, non-blocking pipeline. Inspired by the architecture of PostHog and Datadog.
↳ 8,000–15,000 events/sec on a single 4-vCPU VM
Backend Engineer
A SaaS LLM gateway that acts as an intelligent proxy between client applications and three major AI providers. It classifies prompt complexity in real time, routes to the cheapest capable model, and serves repeated queries from a semantic vector cache — all while maintaining a precise per-token billing ledger per tenant.
↳ Up to 90% reduction in AI inference costs via intelligent routing + semantic caching
CTO & Android Engineer
A high-restriction Android application that enforces sleep schedules by making doom-scrolling genuinely uncomfortable. Unlike standard app blockers that can be dismissed in a tap, CONTROL draws an un-bypassable system-level overlay with a 60-second breathing timer — backed by a watchdog stack that survives Android's aggressive background process killing.
↳ Sub-100ms app detection latency with near-zero CPU usage at idle
Backend Engineer
A production-ready microservices platform demonstrating distributed systems fundamentals — service discovery, API gateway routing, asynchronous event-driven workflows, and idempotent message processing. Six independent Spring Boot services communicate via REST and RabbitMQ, deployed behind Nginx.
↳ 6 microservices, 3 infrastructure containers, exactly-once message processing via Outbox pattern
Writing
Connect
Open to backend and AI engineering roles. You can find my code on GitHub, my professional background on LinkedIn, or reach me directly at tijanibwebdev@gmail.com.