PROBLEM
Why this system exists
Traditional job boards list openings but do not explain how an opportunity aligns with a person’s skills, certifications, projects, experience, and career direction.
Backend AI Product Engineering
A real backend product moving from job ingestion to explainable, persisted, personalized career recommendations.
An enterprise-style FastAPI platform with PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, Redis, Docker, company and job services, deterministic scoring, career-profile APIs, personalized matching, persisted evidence, seed data, and smoke tests.
PROBLEM
Traditional job boards list openings but do not explain how an opportunity aligns with a person’s skills, certifications, projects, experience, and career direction.
OUTCOME
Builds a reproducible career graph and stores versioned recommendation evidence so each personalized match can be inspected and explained.
IMPLEMENTATION PROOF
Core implementation is in progress with working milestones and an explicit delivery roadmap.
ENGINEERING BOUNDARIES
RECRUITER / HIRING MANAGER
I can explain the design decisions, implementation evidence, tradeoffs, and production-hardening path in a focused technical review.