
Dominik Kaukinen
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Surrey, BC, Canada
Toptal member since June 4, 2026
Dominik is an engineer with nearly 10 years of experience building multi-tenant SaaS full-stack applications in high-compliance environments. He excels at architecting high-performance, scalable systems and transforming complex technical requirements into elegant, future-ready solutions that drive business growth.
Portfolio
Experience
- Python - 9 years
- AWS Lambda - 8 years
- Serverless Framework - 8 years
- MongoDB - 7 years
- MySQL - 6 years
- AI Engineering - 3 years
- LangChain - 3 years
- AI Enablement - 2 years
Preferred Environment
Serverless, Node.js, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Python
The most amazing...
...solution I've built is the chat system for a robot that hitchhiked across Canada and Europe.
Work Experience
Senior Software Developer
ScalePad
- Created internal agentic tooling to accelerate root-cause analysis across Jira tickets, implementing targeted architectural fixes that reduced support ticket volume by 72%.
- Engineered MCP tooling to enable agents, granting read-only context across database schema, logs, and documentation with strict zero-leakage PII compliance.
- Directed engineering on an initiative to build an automated, zero-downtime migration engine, seamlessly transitioning 70% of enterprise customers from a legacy SaaS app to the flagship one.
Senior Software Developer
Wrkout Media Ltd.
- Directed the development and launch of a multi-region fitness eCommerce platform across two countries, onboarding more than 1,000 personal trainers.
- Spearheaded the maintenance and performance tuning of a live-streaming ecosystem utilized by four gym chains, reducing average video latency by 15%.
- Architected an agentic AI coaching engine utilizing LangChain to generate dynamic, personalized fitness programming and enable contextual product upsells.
Senior Software Developer
Awywi Insurance Services Ltd.
- Developed a self-serve rule-authoring platform enabling non-technical staff to create and launch bespoke insurance products, reducing time to market from months to days with zero engineering dependency.
- Automated the end-to-end insurance policy lifecycle by engineering a comprehensive management system, successfully reducing policy administration costs by 50%.
- Elevated overall system reliability by integrating rigorous automated testing into the CI/CD pipeline, increasing global code coverage to 90%.
- Architected the startup's core platform from the ground up, directing a team of engineers through the complete software development lifecycle to deliver scalable, enterprise-grade solutions.
Software Developer
Red Trait Ventures
- Engineered a multi-tenant SaaS platform integrating major social media APIs to process more than 1,000 daily customer complaints, reducing backlog accumulation by 30%.
- Implemented an NLP pipeline performing real-time sentiment analysis, entity tracking, and summarization, processing over 1,000 daily complaints and reviews with sub-second latency.
- Championed initial code quality initiatives and peer review protocols, bridging the gap between early prototyping and a scalable, successful product release.
Experience
Insurance Rule Authoring System
RNN-Speech
https://github.com/domerin0/rnn-speechEducation
Master's Degree in Artificial Intelligence
University of Ottawa - Ottawa, ON, Canada
Bachelor's Degree in Mechatronics Engineering and Management
McMaster University - Hamilton, ON, Canada
Certifications
Professional Engineer (P.Eng)
Engineers and Geoscientists BC
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Node.js, Claude API, REST APIs, Stripe API, Vue, SQLAlchemy, Twilio API, TensorFlow
Tools
Claude, Git, Claude Code
Languages
TypeScript, Python, JavaScript, C#.NET, SQL
Frameworks
Serverless Framework, Express.js, Flask
Platforms
AWS Lambda, Amazon Web Services (AWS), LangSmith, iOS, Android, Azure
Storage
JSON, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, Amazon DynamoDB
Paradigms
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Other
Serverless, APIs, Authorization, Anthropic, Agentic AI, API Design, Architecture, API Integration, Software Architecture, Full-stack, LangChain, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Engineering, AI Engineering, AI Enablement, Payment APIs, SaaS, eCommerce, Machine Learning, Open-source LLMs, LLM Reasoning, Large Language Models (LLMs), Torch, Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), FastAPI
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