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Mohamed Muaath Rifath

Software Engineer

[email protected]+91 88837 35079Chennai, India
muaathrifath.melinkedin.com/in/muaath-rifathgithub.com/muaath-rifath

Professional Summary

Software Engineer who has owned and shipped systems across payments, real-time video, identity, AI integrations, and IoT hardware. Comfortable working end-to-end across frontend, backend, database, and infrastructure. Currently building a call automation SaaS.

Experience

Introspect Labs

Oct 2025 – Feb 2026
Full Stack DeveloperRemote, Bengaluru, India
  • •Migrated uyir.ai from OTP-based sign-in to ZITADEL OIDC and synchronized existing user accounts.
  • •Built therapist booking with slot validation, Razorpay payment capture, and LiveKit room creation.
  • •Processed signed LiveKit webhooks to track session attendance and prevent duplicate event handling.
  • •Built text- and voice-based AI journaling with Tiptap inline editing and encrypted storage; blocked journal visualization when crisis content was detected.
  • •Used presigned AWS S3 uploads for therapist media and knowledge-base files, keeping uploads off the application server.
  • •Added offline states and global error boundaries to the Next.js application to handle network and rendering failures.
  • •Automated deployments to a DigitalOcean development environment using GitHub Actions, Docker, and Alembic migrations.

Erlang Labs (erlanglabs.com)

2026 – Present
Software Engineer, Self-EmployedChennai, India
  • •Built the backend for a call automation SaaS using Go and Python microservices.
  • •Enforced tenant isolation with ZITADEL authorization and PostgreSQL row-level security.
  • •Configured APISIX to validate JWTs, rate-limit public routes, strip untrusted headers, and keep internal endpoints private.
  • •Built an asynchronous document-ingestion pipeline with GCS and JetStream, then indexed Gemini/Vertex AI embeddings in Qdrant for retrieval during calls.
  • •Built a background provisioner that initializes new organizations across services and retries failed steps independently.
  • •Built LiveKit agents for inbound and outbound calls using Gemini, ElevenLabs, Cartesia, and Sarvam; captured recordings, transcripts, extracted fields, and usage for each call.

Projects

Sol, Smart Home Ecosystem – Go, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, MQTT, LiveKit, Azure OpenAI

  • •Built the Go backend for managing homes, rooms, members, appliances, and device state with PostgreSQL (TimescaleDB) and Redis.
  • •Built a Python voice assistant with LiveKit and Azure OpenAI for natural-language device control.
  • •Secured the device platform with ZITADEL authentication, room-level access controls, and mTLS-authenticated MQTT connections.
  • •Tracked device commands with MQTT acknowledgements and control logs so the backend could confirm their outcome.
  • •Built OTA firmware updates with mTLS-protected downloads, safe retries, and device configuration preserved across updates.

Zylert, AI Notification Triage App – Kotlin, Android SDK, Node.js, PostgreSQL, JSON/Zod, REST APIs

  • •Built an Android app and Node.js backend that uses AI to classify captured notifications as important, moderate, or unwanted.
  • •Added AI-generated notification summaries and a chatbot for searching and asking questions about past alerts.
  • •Validated API payloads with Zod and stored notification history in PostgreSQL.

Skills

Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, SQL, C/C++, Kotlin, Bash, HTML/CSS

Backend: FastAPI, Node.js, Express.js, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, MongoDB, Prisma, Redis, Celery, Alembic, gRPC

Frontend: React, Next.js, Vue.js, Tailwind CSS, Tiptap, Zustand, Three.js, Framer Motion

Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean, Docker, Linux, Git, GitHub Actions, Nginx, APISIX, NATS JetStream

AI & Realtime: LiveKit, Gemini/Vertex AI, Azure OpenAI, Qdrant, RAG, MCP

Security: ZITADEL OIDC/OAuth, JWT, mTLS, PostgreSQL RLS

Certifications

  • •MCP: Build Rich-Context AI Apps with Anthropic – DeepLearning.AI (May 2025)
  • •Docker Foundations Professional Certificate – Docker, Inc. (Feb 2026)
  • •Foundation of Cloud IoT Edge ML – NPTEL (May 2024)

Education

Aalim Muhammed Salegh College of Engineering2022 – 2026
Chennai, India
B.E. in Electronics & Communication Engineering
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