I'm Raj — a senior developer at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. I build the infrastructure, deploy the Government of Canada websites and 100+ applications that run on it, and secure all of it to government standards — across Azure, AWS, and real on-prem systems. The best deploys are the ones nobody notices.
What I work on
A few places where I tend to do my best work — across Azure-hosted, on-prem, and the messy hybrid in between.
Azure & AWS infrastructure-as-code, App Services, and identity — paired with Azure DevOps pipelines and Git workflows that turn Friday-night deploys into a non-event.
C# / ASP.NET services connecting enterprise datasets, internal platforms, and third-party systems through clean, well-documented integrations.
Routing & switching, OSPF and BGP, VLANs and MPLS, wireless, and secure hybrid links — VPNs, private endpoints, and firewalls that connect on-prem to cloud cleanly.
SSO, vulnerability scanning, patch & firewall hygiene. Query tuning across MySQL, Oracle, and SQLite. Backup & DR plans you can actually rehearse.
After hours
Small personal builds I keep around — a way of staying curious about protocols, fundamentals, and how systems hang together end-to-end.
A self-hosted assistant that turns scattered company documents, wikis, and runbooks into answers. A Python pipeline scrapes and chunks the corpus, embeds it into a pgvector store on PostgreSQL, and serves grounded responses through a local Ollama model — entirely on-prem, nothing leaves the network.
A production website built end-to-end for a small business selling handmade chocolate. Drupal 11 with a fully custom theme — featured collection, story, ingredients, customer reviews, gallery, and WhatsApp enquiries — running on a self-managed DigitalOcean droplet that I provision, secure, and operate myself: Nginx, HTTPS, updates, and backups included.
visit vsdelights.com ↗
A small but real distributed system at home. A mesh of ESP-based sensors — motion, door, window, water, CO, and smoke — reports to a Raspberry Pi hub feeding a REST API, database, and Node.js dashboard. Mobile alerts run over a private VPN with segmented network flows and cloud backup.
A full simulation of a real-world company network, built on physical Cisco equipment. End-to-end: edge routing with BGP, OSPF in the core, MPLS transport, VLANs and STP at distribution and access layers, NAT, secure Wi-Fi, site-to-site VPN, and firewalls — designed, wired, and troubleshot by hand.
An Android app that discovers nearby BLE devices — written to learn the protocol end-to-end. It scans advertising packets, parses service UUIDs and manufacturer data, and surfaces each device with live signal strength, letting you inspect GATT services in real time.
On the side
One-on-one sessions for students and career-changers. We focus on building real intuition — the kind that sticks long after the syntax fades.
Patient, project-based, and honest about what's hard. We start wherever you are — fundamentals, debugging habits, the mental models nobody quite spells out — and build toward something you'll be proud to show people.
A short history
In reverse order. Happy to share the full CV if it'd help.
Toolbox
Grouped by where it lives — from the cloud down to the wire.
A little more
I live in Ottawa and spend most of my days inside enterprise codebases and cloud pipelines — mostly C#/.NET on Azure and AWS, alongside real on-prem systems. At the Canadian Food Inspection Agency I take things end-to-end: building the infrastructure, deploying Government of Canada websites like inspection.canada.ca and 100+ applications onto it, and securing all of it to government standards.
What I genuinely enjoy is making complex systems feel calm. Good observability. Deploys that aren't dramatic. Contracts between services that are easy to reason about. Security that isn't bolted on at the end.
Outside of work I tutor a few students, tinker with Android apps and home networking, and walk far too much for someone who claims they don't have time to exercise.
Get in touch
I'm open to senior backend and cloud-platform roles, and the occasional consulting project. Email is the fastest way to reach me — I'll usually write back the same day.
