Nick Joel Gouend — Software Engineer

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About Me

Nick Joel Gouend

Fullstack Software Engineer

Open to opportunities

Contact jombeh121@gmail.com

LinkedIn Joel Gouend

GitHub Maester-Khris

Location Toronto, Ontario

Java Spring Kafka AWS K8s LLM Ops

Community Involvement

AWS JAM

AWS JAM April Jam Session

3rd Place · AWS Gen AI Jam

Team

NPower × Google Google Toronto Office

Google Google I/O Extended

Google I/O

Community

George Brown College · Waterfront Campus Networking Break · Toronto Tech Week 2025

Community Group Photo

HackTheBrain Idea Forge · Toronto Tech Week 2025

Pitch Project Pitch · Toronto Tech Week 2025

Community HackTheBrain · Closing talk

AI Camp AI Summit

Coding Shut Up & Code · Downtown TO

Microsoft DevOps Day

Technical Stack

Areas of Expertise

Backend Engineering

—API Design REST at production grade — idempotency, versioning, ETag, conditional requests & cache semantics
—Performance high-concurrency systems, CPU vs I/O thread modelling, distributed caching, cache stampede prevention
—Data Layer query optimization, batch processing, indexing strategies, denormalization & partitioning decisions
—Debugging stress testing, memory leak investigation, profiling under load

Spring Boot NestJS FastAPI Redis Kafka PostgreSQL

System Architecture

—Distributed Systems event-driven design, CQRS, Transactional Outbox, eventual consistency tradeoffs
—Scalability horizontal scaling patterns, async messaging, backpressure management
—API Contracts schema-first design, breaking change governance, gRPC & WebSocket streaming
—Reliability circuit breakers, retry policies, graceful degradation

Kafka gRPC Event Sourcing CQRS Outbox

AI Systems Integration

—Production LLMs integrating & operating models in live systems — latency budgeting, fallback routing, cost control
—Agentic Pipelines multi-agent orchestration, self-correction loops, tool-use & memory management
—Retrieval RAG architecture, semantic hybrid search, vector store selection & tuning
—Data feature engineering pipelines, workflow orchestration, batch inference

LangGraph RAG Qdrant Airflow Groq

Cloud & Observability

—Infrastructure cloud-native deployments, container orchestration, IaC — built to survive on-call at 2am
—CI/CD automated pipelines with build, test, security scan & semantic versioning gates
—Observability distributed tracing, structured logging, SLO-based alerting — finding the signal in the noise
—Incident RCA discipline, runbook authoring, post-mortem culture

AWS Terraform K8s OpenTelemetry Grafana Splunk

Credentials

Industry Credentials

AWS Solutions Architect Associate

verified

Oracle Java Programmer I Associate

verified

MongoDB RAG Skill Badge

verified

Anthropic AI Foundations Badge

verified

Azure AI Fundamentals Microsoft

verified

Building with Claude Anthropic

verified

Background

Experience & Education

Work Wiconet

Fullstack Software Engineer

Jan 2024 — Sep 2024

Early-stage research startup applying ML and computer networking to real-world problems. Owned the full delivery cycle from API to UI in a fast, research-driven environment.

Python React Node.js

Education University of Yaoundé I

Master's — Computer Science

2021 — 2023

Algorithms & data structures, software testing, TDD, architectural design patterns, Agile, data science and ML fundamentals.

Algorithms TDD ML Architecture

Work Firesoftware

Fullstack Engineer → Project Lead

Sep 2021 — May 2024

Joined as an intern, grew into delivery ownership. Led client meetings, managed the full software lifecycle and drove technical decisions across Java backend and Angular frontend.

Java Angular PHP

Education NPower Canada

Junior Data Analyst Program

Apr 2025 — Jul 2025

Intensive training in data analytics — visualization, storytelling with data, exploration and data-driven decision making.

Data Viz Analytics Storytelling

Work

My Portfolio

Contact Let's build together. Open to roles, collabs & good conversations.

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