Principal-level Software Engineer • AI & Platforms • Bay Area

I architect and build systems that scale.

10+ years architecting production systems. I lead a squad on a real-time platform serving 1M+ connected medical devices, integrate the Anthropic SDK and ML models into its data services, and — as founder of Technology Harvest — ship whole products end-to-end: TH AI, a CRM/sales-automation platform, Barkpark, Lyrazik, Walli and more.

Yves Toupe — Principal Software Engineer

1M+

Connected medical devices on the real-time platform I help lead

10+

Years shipping production systems, platforms & AI-backed products

+25%

Data-retrieval efficiency gain from a predictive caching algorithm in Python

10+

Products shipped end-to-end through Technology Harvest (web, mobile, games)

Principal-level engineering at the intersection of
platforms, health-tech, and applied AI.

I'm a principal-level engineer and architect who turns prototypes into hardened, production-grade systems — and I ship LLM-backed features in production, designing for non-deterministic behavior with rate limits, guardrails and observability.

At Smart Tubing in Palo Alto, I lead an engineering squad on a real-time platform managing 1M+ connected medical devices. I build the Python and TypeScript APIs, operate the MQTT device-to-cloud messaging layer and the Kubernetes/Terraform infrastructure, and integrate LLM APIs and ML models into the data services. I designed a predictive data-caching algorithm in Python that improved data-retrieval efficiency by 25%, and I run the Databricks/Spark pipelines that prepare device data for analytics and models.

In parallel I run Technology Harvest LLC, my SF Bay Area software studio. I built TH AI (a Node.js/Express backend on the Anthropic SDK with Claude, rate limiting, lead capture and email), a full CRM / sales-automation platform (Angular 18, Node.js/Express, MongoDB, Stripe) with scheduled lead import, scoring, enrichment and automated outreach sequences — AI-assisted development with Claude Code end-to-end — plus Barkpark, Lyrazik, Walli, Wamiyi, Finance Planner and six Unity 6 games on Google Play. I own the cloud, CI/CD, store releases and operations.

Before that: Aubay (Crédit Agricole banking apps, Portugal/France), Sinqia (BTG Pactual, Banco ABC), I9XP (Nike, Unilever e-commerce) and Accenture (Brazil's National Dept. of Transport, led a Scrum squad of 8). Fluent in English, French and Portuguese.

Applied AI & LLM Systems

LLM API integration (Anthropic/Claude SDK, OpenAI), agentic workflows, RAG & vector databases, prompt/context engineering, evaluation & guardrails, MLOps (MLflow, Vertex AI), Databricks/Spark, AI-assisted development with Claude Code.

Distributed Systems & Cloud

Event-driven pipelines, microservices, high-throughput REST/OpenAPI APIs, message queues (MQTT, Kafka, RabbitMQ), Socket.IO. AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD, observability, rate limiting & auth.

Regulated & High-Stakes Environments

Medical IoT (1M+ devices, Smart Tubing), banking systems (Crédit Agricole, BTG Pactual, Banco ABC), government infrastructure (DNIT). Emphasis on reliability, auditability and operational maturity.

Zero-to-One Product & Leadership

Lead squads — OKRs, design & code reviews, mentoring senior engineers, stakeholder translation. As a founder, I take products from discovery to delivery alone: cloud, CI/CD, store releases, nginx/PM2 ops and self-hosted Forgejo.

Where I've made an impact.

Sept 2023 — Present
Senior Software Engineer
Smart Tubing
Palo Alto, California
  • Lead an engineering squad on a real-time platform managing 1M+ connected medical devices: set OKRs, define technical scope with non-technical stakeholders, run design and code reviews, mentor engineers, own production outcomes.
  • Hands-on across the stack: Python and TypeScript APIs, React web applications, a companion mobile app, the MQTT device-to-cloud messaging layer and the Kubernetes/Terraform/CI-CD infrastructure.
  • Designed a predictive data-caching algorithm in Python that improved data-retrieval efficiency by 25% and lowered latency platform-wide.
  • Integrate LLM APIs and ML models into the platform's data services; built Databricks/Spark pipelines that prepare device data for analytics and models.
  • Translate business needs into technical scope and translate technical constraints back for product, clinical and executive stakeholders.
2022 — Present
Founder & Lead Engineer
Technology Harvest LLC
SF Bay Area, California
  • Built TH AI (ai.technologyharvest.com): Node.js/Express backend on the Anthropic SDK (Claude) with rate limiting, lead capture and email; moved Barkpark's OpenAI content moderation server-side behind auth-gated, rate-limited routes.
  • Designed and shipped a CRM / sales-automation platform (Angular 18 admin, Node.js/Express + MongoDB API, Stripe billing, JWT role-based auth, node-cron outreach sequences and lead scoring) — AI-assisted development with Claude Code end-to-end.
  • Shipped Barkpark (React web + native iOS/Android, Socket.IO chat, MQTT, AWS S3, Firebase push, Google/Apple sign-in), Lyrazik on the App Store and Google Play (web, Android, iOS, Android Auto, CarPlay) and six Unity 6 (C#) games on Google Play with AdMob.
  • Own cloud, CI/CD, store releases and operations: DigitalOcean, nginx, PM2, self-hosted Forgejo. Direct client discovery, scoping and delivery.
Nov 2022 — Sept 2023
Senior Software Engineer
Aubay (Crédit Agricole)
Portugal & France
  • Maintained and debugged PHP banking applications for Crédit Agricole; cut critical bugs by 80% and raised system uptime.
  • Owned architectural decisions on legacy modules, mentored engineers and collaborated with executive stakeholders.
April 2020 — Feb 2022
Senior Software Engineer
Sinqia (BTG Pactual, Banco ABC)
São Paulo, Brazil
  • Enhanced banking platforms for BTG Pactual and Banco ABC, building with React and Angular, resulting in measurably increased user engagement.
  • Led cross-browser compatibility improvements and adhered to accessibility standards (WCAG).
April — Dec 2019
Senior Software Engineer
I9XP (Nike, Unilever)
São Paulo, Brazil
  • Within a 40-engineer team, built B2B/B2C e-commerce platforms for Nike and Unilever; online sales increased +20% with improved cross-platform UX.
May — Dec 2018
Senior Programmer & Team Lead
MAZZA FC
Franca, Brazil
  • Led a 6-person team delivering a modular React/Node.js e-commerce platform serving 2–5K users/day; set up CI.
Sept 2016 — May 2018
Software Developer
Accenture (DNIT — Brazil's National Dept. of Transport)
Brasília, Brazil
  • Built mission-critical PHP/SQL web apps with Angular UIs and Keycloak auth.
  • Led the development phase of SUPRA (Scrum, team of 8) — real-time road-construction data, dashboards and maps that doubled efficiency in managing national infrastructure projects.
2005 — 2016
Software Developer & Team Lead
Zipmesh (SF), Myinfoshare, Zago Engenharia, AD-infinitum & others
San Francisco, CA • Brasília, Brazil • Benin
  • Zipmesh (SF, 2016): built and deployed an e-commerce app (Laravel 5.2 API, AngularJS, Ionic mobile) with Stripe payments; checkout conversion +15%.
  • Myinfoshare (2015–16): led a central online-identity platform (CodeIgniter, MongoDB sharding/replica sets, encrypted S3, load balancing, Git-flow, CI); zero critical security incidents at launch.
  • Zago Engenharia (2014–15): multilingual web apps (Zend Framework) and an e-commerce app for an environmental consulting company.
  • Co-founded a software & training startup in Benin (2009–14); junior developer (2005–08).

Built for scale, reliability, and production.

AI & LLM Systems

Anthropic SDK Claude OpenAI API Agentic Workflows RAG Vector DBs Prompt & Context Eng. Evals & Guardrails Rate Limiting Claude Code MLflow Vertex AI

Backend & Systems

Python Node.js TypeScript Express Go PHP C# REST / OpenAPI Microservices MQTT Socket.IO Kafka RabbitMQ

Cloud, DevOps & Ops

AWS GCP Azure Kubernetes Terraform Docker CI/CD Jenkins DigitalOcean nginx PM2 Forgejo

Data & Pipelines

Databricks Apache Spark Pandas PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB Redis SQL / NoSQL

Frontend & Mobile

React Angular 18 Next.js RxJS NgRx / Redux Flutter Native iOS / Android Unity 6 (C#) CarPlay / Android Auto WCAG

Product Integrations

Stripe Plaid Link Firebase Push Google / Apple Sign-In Keycloak AdMob AWS S3 node-cron

Testing & Process

TDD / BDD Jest Cypress Mocha E2E Testing Agile / Scrum OKRs Code Review Design Review

Academic foundation.

MS, Computer Science

University of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil — 2015

Research in cloud computing applied to biotechnology. Coursework in Advanced Algorithms and Distributed Systems.

BS, Software Engineering

Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Benin — 2008

Core study in Software Design and System Architecture.

Products I've designed, built and run end-to-end.

Through my SF Bay Area studio Technology Harvest LLC, I ship whole products as the sole engineer — backend, mobile, cloud, CI/CD and operations. These are live, in production, and most run on infrastructure I own.

TH AI landing page — Technology Harvest AI integration

TH AI

Claude-powered AI service for Technology Harvest

Node.js/Express backend on the Anthropic SDK (Claude) with rate limiting, lead capture and email delivery. Powers the AI assistant for Technology Harvest products and hosts the server-side OpenAI content-moderation routes behind auth-gated, rate-limited endpoints.

Anthropic SDK Claude Node.js Express OpenAI Moderation Rate Limiting nginx PM2
Visit ai.technologyharvest.com
Technology Harvest landing page

Technology Harvest CRM

Multi-tenant CRM & sales-automation platform

Full CRM with scheduled lead import, scoring, enrichment and automated outreach sequences. Angular 18 admin, Node.js/Express + MongoDB API, Stripe billing, JWT role-based auth, node-cron jobs. Built AI-assisted with Claude Code end-to-end.

Angular 18 Node.js Express MongoDB Stripe JWT RBAC node-cron Claude Code
Visit technologyharvest.com
BarkPark home feed — posts, Rescue Hub, Trusted Sitters

BarkPark

Social network for dog owners — web + native iOS/Android

Sole engineer end-to-end. Social feed with stories and comments, interactive Park Heatmap, real-time Messages, Rescue Hub for lost/found dogs, Trusted Sitters marketplace, BarkBot AI assistant, and a Founding-Member Stripe-billed Premium tier. Node.js/Express + MongoDB API with Socket.IO chat, MQTT, AWS S3 media, Firebase push, Google/Apple sign-in, and server-side OpenAI content moderation behind rate-limited, OpenAPI-validated routes.

React Native iOS Native Android Node.js MongoDB Socket.IO MQTT AWS S3 Firebase Stripe OpenAI BarkBot AI
Visit barkpark.online
Lyrazik landing page — your music, everywhere

Lyrazik

Personal music locker & player — live on both stores

Cloud music locker and player live on the App Store and Google Play, with first-class support for CarPlay and Android Auto. Web, Android and iOS clients on a shared backend; media storage, playback and sync owned end-to-end.

iOS Android CarPlay Android Auto Node.js AWS S3 App Store Google Play
Visit lyrazik.com
Walli landing page — personal wealth tracker

Walli & Finance Planner

Personal wealth tracker & cash-flow planner

Full-stack personal finance platform. Users connect accounts via Plaid Link, track spending, forecast cash flow, set savings goals and get AI-assisted transaction categorization. React/Vite + Express + PostgreSQL on AWS; Stripe-powered subscriptions. I own the cloud and operations end-to-end.

React / Vite Node.js TypeScript Express Plaid Link Stripe PostgreSQL AWS
Visit walli.app
Wamiyi Académie landing page

Wamiyi Académie

Multilingual e-learning & entrepreneurship platform

Next.js e-learning platform with full internationalization via next-intl. Course catalog, enrollment, payments and multi-locale content — serving a community of 500+ learners across West Africa and the diaspora with French-language training in agriculture, entrepreneurship and digital skills.

Next.js next-intl TypeScript Node.js MongoDB Stripe i18n
Visit wamiyiacademie.com
Daily Block Puzzle — drop gems, clear lines

Daily Block Puzzle

Drop gems. Clear lines. Beat today.

A gem-cut block puzzle you can pick up in five seconds and play for an hour. Daily challenge with the same shapes for everyone, chain-clear multipliers, 8 unlockable themes, 2 block styles. Offline, no account.

Unity 6 C# Google Play AdMob Offline Daily Challenge
blockpuzzle.technologyharvest.com
Parking Jam — hop over cars in 8 toy worlds

Parking Jam

Tap. Slide. Hop out of the jam. Eight toy worlds.

300 solver-verified levels across 8 themed worlds (sunny town, snow, desert, moon, Mars, Saturn …) with gold-arrow hoppers that jump one car, boosters, and a Daily Jam. Every level is proven solvable at generation time.

Unity 6 C# 300 Levels Solver-verified Google Play AdMob
parkingjam.technologyharvest.com
Penny Empire — idle tycoon, start with a lemonade stand

Penny Empire

Start with a lemonade stand. End with an empire.

Free idle tycoon: tap to earn, hire managers that run shops for you, franchise for permanent Gem bonuses and keep earning while away. Ten lively shops, six themes, achievements and a Lucky Spin.

Unity 6 C# Idle / Tycoon Franchise System Google Play AdMob
pennyempire.technologyharvest.com
Pour Sort — neon water sort puzzle

Pour Sort

Pour the colours. Sort the lab. Mix, match and win.

400 handmade neon levels (3 to 14 colours), locked and hidden tubes, a Daily Level and 36 achievements. Every level is proven solvable with its best move count shown. Themes, colourblind symbols, plays offline.

Unity 6 C# 400 Levels Solver-verified Offline Google Play
poursort.technologyharvest.com
Sudoku Daily — a new Sudoku every day

Sudoku Daily

A new Sudoku every single day. Keep the streak alive.

Five difficulty levels from Easy to Master, a daily puzzle for everyone with a streak calendar, smart hints that explain the next logical step, pencil notes and highlights, seven unlockable themes. Offline, no sign-up.

Unity 6 C# Unique-solution Gen. Streak System Offline Google Play
sudokudaily.technologyharvest.com
Triple Tile Match — tap three tiles, clear the pile

Triple Tile Match

Tap. Match. Clear the pile. Meet Mochi.

Match three tiles to clear a layered pile before the tray fills. 300 solvable levels, five themed worlds (Fruit Market, Sweet Shop, Garden, Auto Garage, Mixed Bag), a daily puzzle, boosters and Mochi the guide cat. Plays offline.

Unity 6 C# 300 Levels Daily Puzzle Offline Google Play
tripletile.technologyharvest.com

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Open to Principal, Staff & Lead Engineer roles

Especially interested in applied AI / LLM platforms, health-tech, fintech, developer tools and companies running real-time systems at scale. Comfortable going deep (hands-on Python/TypeScript, Kubernetes, model integration) and setting direction for a squad. Based in the Bay Area, open to remote & hybrid.

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