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Mohamed Muaath Rifath
Software Engineer
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- •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- •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)