about

Ramees is a software architect and backend engineer with 12 years designing, building, and scaling cloud-native systems. He specialises in microservices architecture, event-driven backends on AWS and Azure, and the DevOps that ships them — with a consistent emphasis on performance, reliability, and clean, maintainable code.

His current work spans large-scale platform engineering and applied AI. At Foodo, he decomposed a monolithic food-delivery backend into domain-bounded services and built AI content-generation and analytics tools on Python/FastAPI — running large-language-model and diffusion workloads behind queue-based inference pipelines. He is equally at home designing the architecture, writing the services, and owning the cloud infrastructure they run on.

Ramees is the founder of RedZoc, which makes apps that speak: voice and accessibility apps used by blind and low-vision people. Its eSpeak NG Text-to-Speech app for Android has over 100,000 installs, and Try eSpeak NG lets anyone hear eSpeak NG in over 100 languages, right in the browser. A screen reader user himself, Ramees tests every release with TalkBack and contributes fixes back to the open-source eSpeak NG project, including better reading of Sinhala, mixed-language text and Arabic.

As Co-Founder at Friendsonomy Innovations, Ramees led the technical vision and build behind Talaash, one of the more dynamic alumni engagement platforms in the space. He set the cloud-native architecture, established DevOps practices to shorten deployment cycles, and is guiding a phased rebuild of the platform onto a modern NestJS, PostgreSQL and Prisma stack with zero downtime for its pilot institution.

For over a decade as a Software Architect with Systica Systems (2014–2025), he designed and delivered scalable software for a wide range of client products — greenfield builds, cloud migrations, and modernising legacy monoliths into maintainable microservices, backed by CI/CD pipelines and clear technical documentation.

He has also taken focused hands-on roles when a project called for it — including a stint as a Senior Software Developer at Qkopy, contributing across the full software lifecycle from design and development through testing and deployment.

Across all of it, Ramees' expertise spans cloud architecture, microservices, DevOps, backend system design, and applied AI. He is at his best solving hard engineering problems and turning them into reliable systems that make a real difference for the people who use them.