Basit Tijani
Backend engineer specializing in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and high-throughput platforms. Built a globally distributed Key-Value store using Raft consensus, a telemetry ingestion pipeline processing 15K events/sec, and a multi-tenant LLM gateway optimizing inference routing. Experienced deploying production systems on Azure and Oracle Cloud.
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.
Experience
Nickolas Networking LLC
— Distributed Systems EngineerA high-availability distributed consensus engine based on the Raft protocol, built from scratch in Go. Features a 5-node global mesh with double-fault tolerance, specialized production tuning for cross-continental latency, and a multi-threaded concurrent architecture for high-throughput vertical scaling.
Vantage Data Systems
— Platform Engineer, ContractA 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.
ABWORLDNOTION
— Full Stack EngineerA photography booking platform built to handle complex timezone conversions, atomic slot-locking, and seamless payments for a Canada-based business.
Projects
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.
Startup Leadership
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.
IMPACT
↳ Sub-100ms app detection latency with near-zero CPU usage at idle
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.