About Hatim Patwa
Hatim Patwa is a Forward Deployed & Senior Software Engineer based in India, specializing in turning ambiguous problems into production systems. With a strong focus on TypeScript and Node.js, Hatim excels at shipping integrations, data pipelines, and AI infrastructure. He has a proven track record of diving into unfamiliar production systems, identifying critical issues, and delivering robust solutions.
- Key Skills: TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, Python (Django, FastAPI), Rust, PostgreSQL, AWS, Azure AD B2C, GCP, Docker, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, Playwright, Nx monorepos, Anthropic Claude API, Model Context Protocol (MCP), LLM agents, RAG, Claude Code, System design, Multi-tenant SaaS, Microservices, Root-cause analysis, Release coordination.
- Experience: Over 5 years of shipping production software across industries like procurement, legal tech, and mining. Currently a Forward Deployed Engineer and SDE-3 at Systango.
- Approach: Emphasizes root causes over quick patches and enforced guardrails over hoping for prompt behavior. Focuses on mapping domains and data flows before coding, owning solutions end-to-end, making systems observable, and constraining AI by design with least-privilege, read-only access.
- Personal Projects: Develops tools like 'Jarvis' (a personal AI daemon), 'Doc sidecar' (document ingestion service), and contributes to agent tooling with Claude Code.
Hatim is open to senior backend, forward-deployed, and AI-enabled engineering roles.