Backend Engineer · Cloud & Applied AI

Hi, I'm Hydar

Portrait of Hydar Hafiz bin Hydzelan

Engineering focus

Backend Engineer building production cloud and AI systems.

Backend engineer building Python/FastAPI backends, Terraform-managed AWS delivery, and reliability-focused applied-AI systems with graph retrieval and structured validation. Brings a traceability-first approach to API/data design, infrastructure automation, performance testing, and constrained LLM workflows.

About me

I’m a backend engineer based in Bangi, Selangor, with Python, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL as my foundation. I extend that base into Terraform-managed AWS delivery and reliability-focused applied-AI systems.

At AMIC, I own the backend, database, and AWS delivery scope for SAFAPAC and contribute to AIRIS through AI workload testing, bottleneck analysis, and optimization recommendations for senior review. Outside work, I’m actively developing AnotherEdenAI around typed graph retrieval, deterministic candidate generation, structured validation, and bounded LLM refinement.

I hold three cloud and AI credentials and am focused on Backend Software Engineer, Cloud & DevOps Engineer, and Applied AI Engineer opportunities in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor from November 2026.

01

Ownership-minded

Takes early-stage backend, data, and cloud scope beyond boilerplate and follows it through delivery.

02

Traceability-first

Strengthens data models, calculation traceability, validation, testing, and operational documentation.

03

Collaborative

Works across domain research, frontend delivery, senior engineering, and stakeholder training.

Measured work

SAFAPAC

33,047 governed defaults

12 processes · 22 feedstocks · 217 countries

SAFAPAC

50 ms p95

33-point sensitivity workflow · 10 staging acceptance cycles

AIRIS

96.1% less local RAG context

6-scenario/10-turn controlled experiment · 541k to 20.9k local-context tokens · 10/10 citation checks passed

AnotherEdenAI

367/367 legal-kit coverage

canonical character forms/styles · accepted portfolio evidence snapshot

Featured work

Supporting cloud-deployment case studySupporting case study

AIRBUS EDUCATIONAL EXHIBITION IN THAILAND · 15–25 August 2026

SAF Sky Quest

Rapid AWS hosting and event-infrastructure delivery for a Sustainable Aviation Fuel education quiz.

  • Rapid AWS Lightsail deployment
  • Domain, HTTPS, and event operations
  • Data export and infrastructure closeout

Work experience

Backend Software Developer (Contract)

Aerospace Malaysia Innovation Centre

  • Built and evolved SAFAPAC's Python/FastAPI and PostgreSQL backend and AWS delivery, moving an incomplete local prototype toward an AWS-hosted internal pilot supporting 6 TEA researchers and 5 Airbus staff.
  • Governed 33,047 defaults across 12 processes, 22 feedstocks and 217 countries with draft, publish and rollback workflows; refactored a 33-point sensitivity workflow to prepared inputs and targeted NPV projections at 50 ms p95 across 10 staging acceptance cycles.
  • For AIRIS, designed a 6-scenario/10-turn controlled experiment on RAG workloads that achieved 96.1% less local RAG context, from 541k to 20.9k local-context tokens, with 10/10 citation checks passed; then load-tested vector-search and outbound-LLM bottlenecks for senior review.
  • Automated Terraform-managed AWS delivery with Docker, GitHub Actions, OIDC and SSM; also hosted SAF Sky Quest on Lightsail with Caddy HTTPS, with 29 registration records captured, runtime-data export and infrastructure decommissioning.

Web & Mobile Development Intern

PETRONAS Digital Sdn Bhd

  • Worked on Angular floor/desk views and paired on Ionic booking, QR check-in, Android deployment and development documentation within the five-person team.

Skills & expertise

Backend

Python
FastAPI
REST APIs
PostgreSQL
SQL
Pydantic

Cloud & DevOps

AWS
Terraform
Docker
GitHub Actions
OIDC
AWS Systems Manager (SSM)
Linux
Nginx
CI/CD

Applied AI

Neo4j
RAG / GraphRAG
LangGraph
LLM Integration
Retrieval Systems
Structured Validation
AI Evaluation

Supporting Technologies

TypeScript
Angular
Ionic
Node.js
Git

Credentials

Certifications

Education

May 2022 – Aug 2025

Bachelor of Computer Science (Hons)

Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS

CGPA: 3.51