Minimum 10 years of software development experience, with continuous hands‑on coding and delivery of cloud-native applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and microservices in production
Azure‑first cloud expertise (10+ years) including Zero Trust security architecture, managed identities, Entra ID, networking, access control, and cost optimization
Event‑driven distributed systems (10+ years) using Kafka and/or AWS SQS in production at scale
API architecture and ownership (10+ years) covering REST, gRPC and GraphQL, governance, versioning, and backward compatibility