// Senior Backend Engineer × Agentic AI

David Torres

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Senior backend engineer with 8+ years building and scaling Java & Spring Boot systems across fintech, banking, and healthcare — from greenfield microservice architecture and AWS cloud migrations to agentic AI backends built on Spring AI, LangChain and the Anthropic SDK. AWS-certified and DevOps-minded, with a self-hosted Kubernetes homelab I run from anywhere.

8years building
6production systems
9-nodek3s homelab
AWScertified dev
David Torres
Available for contract & project work
About

Engineer at the intersection of medicine & code

I'm a biomedical engineer turned software developer with around eight effective years shipping software and hardware across the medical, financial, and SaaS worlds — from Goldman Sachs market-risk systems to bespoke imaging devices for clinics.

My core is Java and Spring Boot — and increasingly agentic AI backends built on Spring AI, LangChain and the Anthropic Claude API. What I care about most is backend architecture, security, communication protocols, and deployment — CI/CD, containers, and Kubernetes. I lean DevOps: I want to own the pipeline and the infrastructure, not just the code. Frontend (React) I'm still learning and use pragmatically — my focus stays on the system behind it.

I live a nomadic life out of the Yucatán Peninsula & the Riviera Maya and spend my time off underwater — I'm an Advanced PADI scuba diver and AIDA 2 freediver, training for deeper apnea dives along the cenotes and open water of the Caribbean coast.

Tech Arsenal

What I build with

The tools I reach for daily across backend, data, and infrastructure.

Selected Work

Production projects

Real systems in the market — described the way a technical reviewer would want to read them.

Self-Hosted Infrastructure

The homelab

A multi-node cluster and a full self-hosted stack — reachable from anywhere over a private mesh — where I test, break, and learn new technology as a hobby.

Career

Experience

Always Learning

Certifications & courses

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AWS Certified Developer – Associate

Amazon Web Services
Certified
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Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

CNCF · Linux Foundation
In progress

Claude Certified Architect, Foundations

Anthropic
In progress

GitHub Actions (GH-200)

Microsoft
In progress
Get in touch

Let's build something great.

Available for contract and project work — backend, cloud-native, DevOps, and agentic AI systems. The fastest way to reach me is email or WhatsApp.