● IRVINE, CA · BACKEND & PLATFORM ENGINEER
Houman Eskandani — Backend & Cloud Platform Engineer. Building high-security, multi-tenant APIs and cloud platforms in Go, GraphQL, Python, Java, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes. Currently shipping the GraphQL platform at The Vport; previously at IDEMIA on a card-personalization platform serving tier-1 U.S. banks.
Currently at The Vport, working on the GraphQL platform. Three years before that at IDEMIA on a card-personalization platform serving tier-1 U.S. banks. On the side I build with AI — lately voice apps for Even Realities smart glasses, a native iOS sports-partner app, and ApplyAgent, an open-source job-application agent powered by Claude.
(01) About
Ibuildthepartsmostpeopleneversee—andfeelonlywhentheybreak.
I'm a backend engineer with 5+ years building high-security, multi-tenant APIs — most of that time at IDEMIA, on the card-issuance platform that ships secure card transactions in production for tier-1 U.S. financial institutions.
Today I'm at The Vport, working on the GraphQL platform behind their VR concert streaming product — backend architecture, security, and the kind of observability that lets a small team sleep at night.
On the side I build with AI — lately a suite of voice-driven apps for Even Realities smart glasses, a native iOS sports-partner finder, and ApplyAgent, an open-source agent that fills out real job applications by reasoning over live DOM with Claude and Playwright.
I obsess over the boring guarantees — idempotency, ordering, durability — because that's where products live or die at scale.
Currently exploring
Agents on constrained hardware, multi-tenant isolation when the caller is a model rather than a person, and making LLM-driven automation reliable enough to run unattended.
5+
yrs in backend
Tier-1
banking clients
Multi-tenant
GraphQL platform
Experience
- Apr 2025 — PresentSoftware Engineer — Backend / PlatformThe VportRemote
- Feb 2022 — Mar 2025Software Engineer II — Card PersonalizationIDEMIALos Angeles, CA
- Sep 2021 — Feb 2022Lead Backend EngineerSpotlist IncNew York City, NY
- Sep 2020 — Sep 2021Backend Engineer InternSpotlist IncNew York City, NY
Education
- Aug 2017 — Jul 2021B.S. Computer ScienceUniversity of California, Riverside
- Aug 2015 — Jul 2017A.S. Computer ScienceIrvine Valley College
(02) Selected Work
ThingsIhelpedgettoproduction.
(03) Capabilities
ToolsandpatternsIreachfor.
01 · Languages
- →Go
- →Python
- →Java
- →TypeScript
- →SQL
- →C / C++
02 · Backend & APIs
- →GraphQL (gqlgen)
- →REST
- →gRPC
- →FastAPI
- →Django
03 · Data
- →PostgreSQL (GORM)
- →MongoDB
- →MySQL
04 · Cloud & DevOps
- →AWS (EC2, S3, RDS)
- →GCP (Cloud SQL, GCS, GKE)
- →Kubernetes
- →Docker
- →Prometheus
- →CI/CD
05 · Security
- →OAuth 2.0
- →JWT
- →RBAC
- →MFA / TOTP
- →PCI-DSS
(04) Contact