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Shubhanshu Aarsay — Senior Software Engineer Build in stealth. Ship loud.

Senior Software Engineer & founder of Optimus Foundry. I design and build backend platforms, CI systems and applied-AI products — for teams that need them fast, solid and easy to run.

Also open to senior / staff engineering roles.

GOLANG • TYPESCRIPT • REACT • PYTHON • AWS • TERRAFORM • GOLANG • TYPESCRIPT • REACT • PYTHON • AWS • TERRAFORM •
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What I do

/services
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Platforms & CI/CD

Build pipelines, developer platforms and the Go services behind them — tuned for throughput, like the 20k req/s internals I worked on at CircleCI.

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Event-driven backends

Microservices, queues and multi-tenant APIs on AWS — RabbitMQ, Lambda, GraphQL, Postgres — designed to scale without surprises.

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Applied AI

LLM agents and AI features wired into real products and workflows — built through Optimus Foundry, from prototype to production.

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How I build

/non-negotiables
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Clean architecture

Clear boundaries and boring interfaces, so the system is easy to change next year.

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Observable by default

Logs, metrics and traces ship with the first release, not after the first incident.

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Accessible by default

Interfaces work with a keyboard and a screen reader from day one.

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Documented

Decisions, runbooks and APIs written down, so the next engineer isn't guessing.

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Featured work

live in production
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Industry experience

2016 → now
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Founder
Optimus Foundry — Ottawa
2024 — Present
Building Optimus Foundry — applied AI products and engineering platforms. Operating end-to-end across product, infra, and growth.
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W/02
Senior Software Engineer
CircleCI — Remote
2022 — 2024
CI/CD platform internals. Architected Go microservices handling 20k+ req/s with optimized Postgres queries and concurrent processing.
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W/03
Senior Software Engineer
Q4 Inc — Toronto
2020 — 2022
Investor-relations platform. Designed AWS serverless microservices for multi-tenant video delivery with RabbitMQ message routing and GraphQL APIs.
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W/04
Software Engineer
Hootsuite — Vancouver
2018 — 2020
Social platform infra. Built React-Redux testing framework reducing implementation time by 50% and optimized CI/CD pipeline by 20%.
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W/05
Software Engineer
Earlier — India
2016 — 2018
First years shipping production code — Java backend, iOS app with auto-connect algorithm and PDF generation for 200+ floor heatmaps.
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Writing

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