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Dhruv Shah
Senior Backend & Platform Engineer

Summary

Senior Backend / Platform Engineer with 3+ years of hands-on experience building and modernizing production systems across logistics, healthcare, and AI SaaS. Strong in Laravel/PHP, SQL Server, RabbitMQ/SQS, cloud integrations, authentication, and observability. Currently leading platform work at Bison Transport, including a Microsoft Entra SSO/MFA migration, Datadog observability, a Gravitee API-gateway rollout, a SendGrid email migration, and high-volume Track & Trace integrations. Also building IRIS, a multi-tenant AI support platform that autonomously resolves ~78% of e-commerce conversations. I own systems end to end and partner with infrastructure, security, and product teams.

Core Skills

Languages
PHP, TypeScript, Python, JavaScript, SQL
Backend & APIs
Laravel, Yii, FastAPI, Node.js, REST, SOAP
Data & Messaging
SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Prisma, RabbitMQ, SQS
Cloud & DevOps
Docker, Azure, AWS, GitHub Actions, GHCR, Portainer
Observability & Auth
Datadog, Sentry, Microsoft Entra (SSO/MFA), Auth0, Gravitee, RBAC
AI
OpenAI / LLM workflows, RAG & grounding
Also
Next.js, React, Supabase, Django, SendGrid

Experience

Senior Software Engineer, Bison Transport
Dec 2024 - Present, Toronto
  • Leading the Microsoft Entra SSO/MFA migration for logistics applications, replacing hard-coded, table-managed authentication with proper app registrations, RBAC mapping, and a rollout plan defined with the infrastructure and security teams, strengthening security posture and simplifying employee login.
  • Built Datadog observability from scratch across queue workers and external integrations, cutting blind spots on failed jobs and API errors and speeding incident triage.
  • Standing up a Gravitee API gateway to give the org traffic visibility and per-team API keys, replacing a setup with no gateway and shared credentials.
  • Built and hardened high-volume Track & Trace integrations with Highway over SQL Server, RabbitMQ, and SQS, covering eligibility validation, carrier rules, status sync, retries, and operational safeguards.
  • Implemented Auth0 in a production application and migrated transactional email from Microsoft Exchange to SendGrid, gaining deliverability visibility and error handling.
  • Modernized legacy PHP, Yii, Zend, and Laravel services into smaller, testable modules; built employee/user sync via Paycom, Workday, and RBAC, and advanced CI/CD with Docker, GitHub Actions, GHCR, and Portainer.
Co-Founder / Technical Lead, AD Tech AI Inc.
Jan 2026 - Present, Toronto
  • Architected IRIS, a multi-tenant AI support platform that autonomously handles e-commerce customer support, resolving ~78% of conversations without a human and escalating the rest.
  • Designed the system end to end: a Next.js + TypeScript app, a Prisma/PostgreSQL data layer, and Python/FastAPI AI services running a pipeline of intent detection, identity verification, data lookup, and respond-or-escalate logic.
  • Built a multi-tenant backend serving a hosted support page and an embeddable widget from one codebase, each scoped to its business's data, with OTP-gated access to sensitive order data.
  • Built an owner dashboard and a natural-language analytics assistant over orders, conversations, and inventory.
Full-Stack Developer, CareChain
Mar 2022 - Jul 2022
  • Built modules for a live healthcare product using React, Django, and MySQL with reliable data storage and retrieval.
  • Used Redux-Saga to manage asynchronous flows, improving responsiveness and stability.
  • Architected and integrated Django REST APIs for clean frontend-to-backend communication.
Full-Stack Developer, Yantre Venture
Sep 2019 - Nov 2020
  • Delivered across the full SDLC in an agile/SCRUM environment tracked in JIRA, contributing to multiple client projects.
  • Built dynamic, cross-browser UIs with Angular 11, TypeScript, Angular Material, and Vue.js.
  • Developed REST controllers with Spring Data REST and a JPA/Hibernate data layer over Oracle DB.

Selected Platform Work

Education

B.E., Computer Engineering, ITM (SLS) Baroda University
2015 - 2019