Technical Lead · Backend Architect

Building resilient Python platforms

I design and ship scalable backend systems with FastAPI, microservices, and cloud-native tooling. With 10+ years in the field, I help teams move fast without sacrificing reliability, observability, or developer experience.

10+ yrs Leading backend delivery across security, logistics, and analytics domains.
Architecture FastAPI microservices, REST design, performance, and observability.
Community Organizer @ PyData Indore; mentoring engineers and sharing patterns.
Sumit S Chawla
Technical Lead · Remote

Currently driving backend architecture and modernization—scaling services, improving reliability, and coaching teams on quality-first delivery.

FastAPI Microservices Cloud
Highlights

Recent impact

Scalability

FastAPI microservices

Architected multi-tenant services with strong SLAs, templated API docs, and scalable auth patterns.

Reliability

CI/CD + Observability

Hardened delivery with Docker/K8s, gated releases, logging/metrics, and zero-downtime deploys.

Data & Cloud

Secure data flows

Integrated Azure SQL and storage, enabling analytics/reporting for security and logistics platforms.

Leadership

Coaching high-output teams

Design reviews, mentorship, and documentation-first habits to keep teams fast and aligned.

Experience

A decade of building backend systems

May 2024 - Present Technical Lead Confidential · Remote

Leading backend architecture

Building FastAPI-based platforms, defining service boundaries, observability, and developer experience.

Jan 2024 - May 2024 Consultant / Senior Python Dev Indore

Shipping REST solutions

Partnered with frontend/UI teams; delivered RESTful apps with full Swagger docs and feedback-driven iterations.

Jan 2021 - Nov 2022 Senior Solution Engineer Indore

Enterprise-grade systems

Built Django/FastAPI/Flask services, containerized with Docker & K8s, implemented CI/CD and microservice patterns.

Nov 2018 - Jan 2021 Associate Software Engineer Indore

Reliability & monitoring

End-to-end SDLC participation, TDD, secure deployments on AWS, and database design.

Aug 2017 - Oct 2018 Junior Software Developer (ML/Python) Mumbai

Data prep & classification

Built pipelines for product classification and data preprocessing.

Skills

Toolkit I bring to teams

Languages & Frameworks

Python, FastAPI, Django, Flask

Microservices OpenAPI Async I/O

Platform & Data

Azure SQL, Blob/File storage, REST integrations

SQL Observability Caching

Delivery & Quality

CI/CD, TDD with PyTest, linting, docs, release gates

Docker & K8s CI/CD API Docs

Leadership

Roadmaps, design reviews, mentorship, stakeholder alignment

Mentorship Design Reviews Standards
Education

Learning that shaped me

2022 - 2023

Full Stack Data Science Bootcamp

iNeuron.ai

2017

Diploma in Big Data Analytics

C-DAC

2009 - 2013

Bachelor of Engineering (E&C)

Swami Vivekanand College of Engineering

Let’s build something durable together

I partner with teams to design scalable, well-documented systems. Happy to chat about new work, architecture reviews, or mentorship.