Open to SDE / Cloud / Agentic AI
Taleh Malikov
Backend & Cloud Engineer - three years building national-scale health infrastructure, now building agentic systems at UChicago
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3+
Yrs Industry
35%
API Latency Cut
10M+
Users Served
Trajectory
Professional Journey
Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of Chicago · September 2026 - Present
MPCS 51083 Cloud Computing (Graduate)
AWS
Cloud Architecture
Kubernetes
Terraform
Distributed Systems
Details
- Supported graduate students through complex cloud architecture assignments covering AWS, Kubernetes, and distributed systems - answering technical questions during office hours and online
- Graded assignments and provided detailed feedback on cloud infrastructure design, IaC, and system architecture decisions; bridged theory and industry practice drawing on hands-on production experience
Research Assistant
University of Chicago · March 2026 - Present
Human Computer Integration Lab · avatar.plopes.org
Three.js
JavaScript
Python
WebGL
LLMs
Biomechanical Simulation
Details
- Built a 3D avatar interface (avatar.plopes.org) that renders electrical muscle stimulation commands as visible body motion, so a system acting on the body can be inspected without a participant wearing the electrodes
- Mapped language-generated stimulation commands onto skeletal joint rotations and validated them against anatomical limits, displaying requested beside applied values so a motion the body could not perform reads as a visible constraint rather than an impossible pose
- Shipped as the lab’s public interface for this work, with a manual control mode and a debug mode for stepping through a sequence command by command; extending toward closed-loop EMS with biomechanical simulation
Software Engineer
The State Agency on Mandatory Health Insurance · July 2023 - September 2025
C#
.NET / ASP.NET Core
PostgreSQL
Redis
RabbitMQ
SignalR
Docker
CI/CD
Details
- Built 3 clinical microservices (registration, laboratory, radiology) for a HIMSS-certified national hospital system serving 200+ hospitals and over 10 million citizens
- Cut API latency 35% through SQL tuning and Redis caching, and improved processing performance 60% by moving to RabbitMQ asynchronous processing
- Reduced deployment time 70% by building out CI/CD, and raised test coverage to 80%
- Owned the military conscript records pipeline end to end - integrating 3 government organizations through an inter-agency gateway with electronic signing and scheduled jobs
- Owned the Qmatic appointment system, where PostgreSQL scheduling functions cut schedule generation ~3x and SignalR drove real-time status to reception monitors
Information Technology Specialist
The Academy of Public Administration · April 2023 - July 2023
C#
ASP.NET MVC
REST APIs
SQL
Deployment
Team Leadership
Details
- Proposed and led the Academy’s first electronic library (lib.dia.edu.az) - still in active use today
- Directed a 5-person team through design, build and rollout
- Built the ASP.NET MVC application and the full API layer
- Deployed and configured the system on Academy infrastructure
Teaching Assistant, Programming Principles
The Academy of Public Administration · November 2021 - March 2023
Python
Algorithms
Teaching
Details
- Taught weekly Python lab sessions for undergraduate students in a programming principles course
- Held office hours, supporting students through assignments and debugging
- Graded assignments and exams
Technical Stack
Skills
Debugger_Console :: Core_Skills
Cloud Platforms / AWS
AWS IAM
CloudFormation
EC2 / VPC
Lambda
Step Functions
S3 / Glacier
SQS / SNS
EKS
Security Hub
CloudWatch
ECS
Backend Engineering
C#
Python
REST APIs
.NET / ASP.NET Core
Microservices
Event-Driven Architecture
Pytest / Moto
Redis
Distributed Systems
SignalR
RabbitMQ
Selenium
ZeroMQ
Flask
FastAPI
SQL
Bash
DDD
CQRS
AI / ML & Agentic Systems
Claude API
LangGraph
RAG Pipelines
ReAct Agents
GPT-4o
sentence-transformers
Vector Embeddings
Prompt Engineering
DevOps & Infrastructure
Kubernetes
Terraform
Docker
CI/CD Pipelines
Helm
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
Envoy Proxy
Grafana
Frontend & Visualization
Three.js
JavaScript
TypeScript
WebGL
3D Rendering
Real-Time Interfaces
Data & Observability
Snowflake
DynamoDB
PostgreSQL
MySQL
Elasticsearch
Cortex AI
CloudWatch
Splunk
Datadog
Git / GitHub
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Recognition
Key Achievements
3x
Faster Scheduling
Qmatic appointment system
PostgreSQL scheduling functions
PostgreSQL scheduling functions
200+
Hospitals Served
HIMSS-certified national
hospital system
hospital system
96.96/100
Graduated with Honors
The Academy of Public Administration
BS Computer Science
BS Computer Science
70%
Deployment Time Reduced
HIMSS-certified national
hospital system in production
hospital system in production
Academic
Education
Graduate · 2025 - 2027
The University of Chicago
MS in Computer Science · Specialization in Artificial Intelligence
Coursework
Cloud Computing
Distributed Systems
Agentic AI Engineering
Generative AI
Algorithms
Computer Systems
Databases
Teaching Assistant - Cloud Computing
Supporting students through AWS, Kubernetes, and distributed systems coursework. Grading assignments and providing structured feedback on cloud infrastructure design.
Supporting students through AWS, Kubernetes, and distributed systems coursework. Grading assignments and providing structured feedback on cloud infrastructure design.
Undergraduate · 2020 - 2024
The Academy of Public Administration
BS in Computer Science
Coursework
Data Structures & Algorithms
Database Systems
Operating Systems
Computer Networks
Software Engineering
Web Development
96.96 / 100 · Graduated with Honors
Validated
Certifications & Awards
State Program for Education of Azerbaijani Youth Abroad
Government of Azerbaijan · Awarded 2025
Full funding for graduate study abroad
Scholarship Program for Talented Youth
ROOF Academy & BP · 2024 - 2025
Selective youth development programme
Technest Scholarship
Code Society IT Center · 2024
Artificial Intelligence programme
Dean’s List, Six Terms
The Academy of Public Administration · 2020 - 2024
Sustained academic distinction
Involvement
DIA Student Youth Club
Volunteer · 2022 - 2023 · The Academy of Public Administration
Student organisation at the Academy. Volunteered across club activities and student events over two academic years.
Youth Development and Career Center
Volunteer · 2020 - 2021 · Baku, Azerbaijan
Volunteered on youth development and career guidance programmes. Also volunteered with the “One Volunteer” Student Cooperation Organization in 2022.
Get In Touch
Let's Connect
Open to software engineering, cloud, and agentic AI roles. MS Computer Science at UChicago, with three years building production backend systems at national scale.
Email
talehmalikov.dev@gmail.com
Phone
(312) 404-1873
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/talehmalikov
GitHub
github.com/talehmalikov
Resume
Download CV (PDF)
Seeking
Software Engineer
Also Open To
Cloud / Agentic AI
Work Type
Full-time / Remote
Location
Chicago, IL · Flexible
Open to new opportunities