Meir Garfinkel

Software Engineer focused on backend, full stack, and applied AI

online Open to software opportunities

About

Building practical systems that are reliable, scalable, and easy to work with.

I am a software engineer with experience across backend and full stack development. I work mainly with Python, TypeScript, and modern web technologies, and I enjoy building clean APIs, data driven services, and production-ready systems.

Contact & Links

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Skills & Stack

Python, FastAPI, Django, REST APIs
PostgreSQL, SQL, data modeling
TypeScript, Node, React, Next.js
HTML, CSS, Tailwind
AWS, Docker, CI/CD, Git, GitHub
RAG systems, OpenAI API, embeddings, vectors

Recent Work

  • Designed and implemented backend services with clear, maintainable APIs.
  • Built a complete retrieval augmented generation system from ingestion to deployment.
  • Worked across the stack, from database design to frontend integration.
  • Deployed containerized applications using cloud infrastructure and CI pipelines.

Featured Projects

Retrieval Augmented Generation Platform
Personal project

A full end to end RAG platform that ingests unstructured content, builds vector indexes, and serves grounded answers through a FastAPI backend. Designed with production concerns in mind, including data modeling, performance, and deployment.

FastAPI Python FAISS OpenAI API Docker
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Shefa: A Free Human-First Job Board
Nonprofit project

A free, nonprofit job board for people without experience looking to break into their first job or a new field. Shefa removes résumés and credential gatekeeping in favor of a human, message-based experience, letting candidates prove themselves directly to employers willing to hire on potential. Built with a strict, type-safe full stack and production concerns like geo search, freshness verification, and email notifications.

Next.js TypeScript tRPC Drizzle ORM PostgreSQL
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