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Hi there, I'm Sithu Aung 👋

Backend Software Engineer | PHP/Laravel | Golang

I'm a backend software engineer with 10+ years of production experience building enterprise-level web applications. I specialize in designing scalable systems, optimizing performance, and solving complex distributed system challenges.

🔧 What I Do

  • Backend Development: Building robust, scalable web applications with PHP/Laravel and exploring Go for microservices architecture
  • System Design: Architecting solutions for high-traffic platforms handling thousands of transactions
  • Distributed Systems: Working with event-driven architectures, microservices orchestration using Temporal, and asynchronous workflows
  • API Development: Designing and implementing RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints
  • Cloud Infrastructure: Deploying and maintaining applications on AWS and Kubernetes

🚀 Go Journey

While I have extensive production experience with PHP/Laravel, I'm deeply passionate about Go and actively transitioning my expertise:

  • 📚 Studied: "Concurrency in Go", "100 Go Mistakes", and various advanced Go resources
  • 🔨 Built: Personal projects exploring Go's concurrency patterns, performance optimization, and distributed systems concepts
  • 🧠 Learning: Production-grade Go patterns, debugging techniques, and real-world microservices architectures
  • 🎯 Goal: Bring my decade of backend engineering experience to Go-based production systems

🛠️ Tech Stack

Production Experience:

  • Languages: PHP, JavaScript, SQL, Go
  • Frameworks: Laravel, Vue.js
  • Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis
  • Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Temporal
  • Tools: Git, CI/CD, Prometheus, GraphQL, Stripe, Algolia

Currently Exploring:

  • Go microservices patterns
  • gRPC and protocol buffers
  • Advanced concurrency patterns
  • Performance optimization in Go

📫 Let's Connect

Always excited to collaborate on challenging technical problems!