Backend and API engineering
Low-latency, high-availability services and APIs for internal teams and external partners, designed to scale horizontally.
Python, FastAPI, Django, REST, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Redis
Backend and data systems that hold up under load.
Ashvane Technologies is the independent engineering practice of Kabir Abdulsalam, a senior software and data engineer. I design, build and fix high-scale APIs, data platforms and cloud infrastructure, including the data foundations AI products depend on.
What I do
Clients bring me in to architect systems from scratch, or to make existing ones faster, cheaper and more reliable. I work across the whole path data takes, from ingestion to the API that serves it.
Data engineering and pipelines
Ingestion, transformation and orchestration for platforms processing terabytes a day, with data quality built in.
Airflow, Spark, Databricks, ClickHouse, BigQuery, Great Expectations
Cloud infrastructure and delivery
Infrastructure as code, containerised deployments and CI/CD pipelines on all three major clouds.
AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker
Performance and cost optimisation
Profiling, caching and query tuning for systems under heavy load, plus cloud cost and usage analytics that show where the money goes.
New Relic, Grafana, Sentry, AWS Cost and Usage Reports
Data foundations for AI
AI is only as good as the data behind it. I build the clean, reliable pipelines and APIs that AI and machine learning systems depend on, and integrate models into production alongside data science teams.
ML pipelines on GCP, Databricks, data quality checks, model serving APIs
Architecture and technical leadership
Founding-engineer architecture, design reviews, engineering standards and mentoring that leave teams stronger after I leave.
System design, code quality, CI/CD practices, pair programming
Selected results
Ten years of production engineering in Germany, Japan and across Europe, spanning AdTech, FinTech, healthcare, cloud analytics, food delivery and aviation.
100s of TB
A data orchestration platform, built from scratch, processing hundreds of terabytes daily with automated quality checks.Food delivery platform
40%
More efficient Spark pipelines on Azure Databricks after optimising a large on-premise to cloud migration.Professional services
30%
Higher customer retention following the launch of a loyalty points system and the API behind it.Food delivery platform
50%
Less manual work for recruiters through automation of the candidate pipeline from sourcing to contract signature.FinTech
Teams I have worked with
Delivery Hero, PwC, Klarna, Bayer (via BCG Digital Ventures), Bonial, lemon.markets, Exmox, Blocks and Giotto AI.
Working together
Contract engagements
Fixed-term or fixed-scope contracts, typically three months or more, embedded with your engineering team.
Remote across time zones
Based in the UAE (GMT+4), between the major time zones: full working-day overlap with the UK, Europe and Asia, and flexible hours for teams across the Americas.
AI-assisted engineering
I use AI coding assistants every day to prototype, test, review and document faster, with careful human review of everything that ships.
Languages
English and French fluently, plus working German (B1) and Japanese (JLPT N3).