about.

Hi, I'm Eugene Paitoo — a software engineer with 3+ years of professional experience building scalable systems and APIs. I work primarily with Go, Node.js, Python, and Java, with a strong focus on distributed systems and clean architecture.

I enjoy solving hard infrastructure problems, contributing to open-source, and learning how systems behave at scale.

experience.

2024 — Present
Software Engineer
Kline + Company

Designed and maintained RESTful APIs serving thousands of daily active users. Improved database query performance by 40% through indexing strategies and query optimization. Led backend architecture decisions for a new microservices migration.

2022 — 2023
Software Engineer
Moralis Web3 Technologies

Built scalable Node.js services for data ingestion pipelines processing over 1M records daily. Built APIs to handle payments for the Moralis Developer Platform. Collaborated cross-functionally with product and frontend teams to deliver features on schedule.

2019 — 2022
Junior Developer
Toldo IT Limited

Contributed to backend feature development in Python and Java. Wrote unit and integration tests, participated in code reviews, and helped maintain internal tooling and documentation.

projects.

1

Wikipedia Edit War Detector

Real-time Wikipedia Pages edit war detection by users built using Kafka, Spring Boot, and reactive programming.

Java Spring Boot Kafka PostgreSQL Reactive Programming
2

EphemeralBridge

A personal file sharing app I built for myself with automatic expiration, utilizing Go concurrency and modern cloud architecture along the way. Code open sourced on GitHub.

Go Google Cloud Platform PostgreSQL Cloudflare
3

Microservice with API Gateway Service

Microservice Architecture with Lightweight API gateway with authentication, request routing, load balancing, and observability built-in. Handles service discovery and circuit breaking for microservices architectures.

Java Spring Boot Microservices
See all projects on GitHub

articles.

01

How Elasticsearch Architecture Boost Search Performance

A deep dive into how Elasticsearch Architecture improves Search Performance through its architecture

Elasticsearch Distributed Systems
Read on Medium
02

Building a Secure Ephemeral File Sharing Service with Go and Cloudflare

How I built a personal file and text sharing app with automatic expiration, learning Go concurrency and modern cloud architecture along the way.

Go Cloudflare Google Cloud Platform Security
Read on Medium
03

What the heck is gRPC?

An understanding of what gRPC is and compare it to traditional RPCs

gRPC Architecture Microservices Backend
Read on Medium
Read all articles on Medium