Maya Lindqvist
Backend Software Engineer
[email protected] · +44 7700 900123 · Manchester, UK
Summary
Backend engineer with five years building APIs and event-driven services in Python and TypeScript. Cut infrastructure spend 31% and p95 latency 40% on a payments platform serving 2M monthly users. Looking for a product team where reliability and developer experience matter.
Experience
Software Engineer II · Northwind Digital
2022 – Present · Manchester (hybrid)
- Re-architected the order service into an event-driven pipeline (Kafka, FastAPI), reducing p95 latency from 820 ms to 490 ms.
- Led a cost review that consolidated 14 microservices into 6 and cut monthly AWS spend by 31%.
- Introduced contract tests across 9 teams; production incidents from API drift fell from 11 to 2 per quarter.
- Mentored two graduate engineers through their first on-call rotations.
Software Engineer · Brightpath Consulting
2019 – 2022 · Leeds
- Built REST and GraphQL APIs for four client projects in retail and logistics.
- Migrated a legacy PHP monolith to a TypeScript service layer with zero-downtime cutovers.
- Wrote the internal Docker/Compose starter kit adopted by 30+ engineers.
Projects
queue-watch — Open-source dashboard for Celery and RQ queues.
- 1.2k GitHub stars; used by three companies in production.
Education
BSc Computer Science · University of Leeds · 2:1
2016 – 2019
Skills
- Languages
- Python, TypeScript, SQL, Go (basic)
- Backend
- FastAPI, Node.js, GraphQL, Kafka, Celery
- Data & Infra
- PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions
Certifications
- AWS Certified Developer – Associate · Amazon Web Services, 2023
Languages
- English · Native
- Swedish · Fluent