Available for meaningful engineering work

I build the systems behind the product.

I’m Jorge Massih, a Senior Backend Engineer focused on Go, distributed systems, and cloud-native architecture.

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Based in Dominican Republic

/ Experience

Engineering systems, teams, and outcomes.

My work sits where architecture meets production: clear technical decisions, careful delivery, and measurable reliability.

Sep 2024 — Present

Senior Backend Engineer

Salesforge · Remote, Estonia

Architecting distributed services for high-scale customer automation and owning production delivery for critical integrations.

1M+ operations per second15+ mission-critical integrations

Aug 2023 — Sep 2024

Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead

OGTIC · Dominican Republic

Led backend engineering for government digital platforms and established stronger architecture, monitoring, and review standards.

~60% lower API latency99.9%+ service uptime

Dec 2021 — Aug 2023

Software Engineer

OGTIC · Dominican Republic

Built secure backend services for national identity, document, and public-service platforms.

SQL and cache optimizationCI/CD and profiling standards

Nov 2021 — May 2024

Cloud-Native Software Engineer

Archk · Remote

Built cloud-native microservices and introduced event-driven architecture and autoscaling across three major cloud platforms.

AWS · GCP · AzureKubernetes at production scale
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/ Core expertise

A practical toolkit for reliable backend products.

01

Backend systems

Go, Python, REST, gRPC, concurrency, performance optimization

02

Architecture

Distributed systems, microservices, Clean Architecture, event-driven systems

03

Cloud & delivery

AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD

04

Data & reliability

PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing

/ Open source lab

I learn by building the layer underneath.

All repositories

/ Latest writing

Explaining the systems behind the software.

Read on DEV.TO
01

HTTP Under the Hood: HTTP/0.9

A practical look at the small protocol that started the web.

#webdev#http#software
02

HTTP Under the Hood: Before HTTP

The ideas and systems that prepared the way for HTTP and the web.

#http#web#software
03

Hexagonal Architecture (Ports & Adapters)

A direct explanation of architecture that keeps business logic independent.

#architecture#systemdesign#cleancode

/ Let’s talk

Wanna talk?

Contact me