Hi, I'm Bashir Abubakar 👋
Backend & AI Infrastructure Engineer helping AI startups and developer-tool companies improve backend reliability, API integrations, and production systems.
I use targeted open-source contributions as proof-of-work by solving real issues in active products and developer platforms.
🚀 Recent OSS Impact
Aegra — PR #428 (Merged)
FastAPI • SQLAlchemy • Infrastructure Reliability
- Fixed database session lifetime issues in SSE streaming endpoints
- Prevented long-lived streaming connections from holding database resources
- Improved scalability and database connection utilization
Sova — PR #175 (Merged)
Backend Validation • Developer Experience
- Improved API validation and commit workflow reliability
- Added production-grade validation safeguards
- Successfully merged into main
Stagewise — PR #1338 (Under Review)
Developer Tools • Git Infrastructure
- Improved Git branch lookup reliability
- Fixed remote synchronization and fetch-related edge cases
Sourcebot — PR #1352 (Under Review)
AI Code Review Infrastructure
- Improved private GitHub Pull Request diff retrieval
- Replaced failing direct diff access with authenticated GitHub API fetching
🛠 Core Technologies
- Python
- FastAPI
- PostgreSQL
- SQLAlchemy
- AsyncIO
- Docker
- REST APIs
- OpenAI
- Groq
- LangChain
- Railway
🏗 Selected Projects
Ironsail Prescription API
Healthcare-focused AI backend built with FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and Groq.
Seyah Workflow Automation
AI-powered workflow orchestration platform focused on automating operational workflows.
🎯 Focus Areas
- Backend Reliability
- API Development
- AI Infrastructure
- Developer Tools
- FastAPI Systems
- Async Python
- Production Systems
💬 Ask Me About
- FastAPI Architecture
- Backend Reliability
- Async Python
- API Integrations
- AI Systems
- Open-Source Proof of Work
📫 Contact
Portfolio: bashops.netlify.app
Email: bashops1@gmail.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/btech67