Platform & backend engineer building the foundations reliable AI runs on.
I designed Blackbird, a Go + Temporal config-management system that eliminated config-drift P0 outages across 800–1,000 tenant clusters, and migrated 600+ production tenants to CloudNativePG with zero downtime.
🧠 Software Engineer II – Platform at kAIgentic · 🌏 Bengaluru, India
🔭 Currently building: Teleport — an event-driven dispatch backend on Temporal + Kafka
Languages: Go · TypeScript/Node.js · Python · SQL
Distributed systems: Temporal · Kafka · RabbitMQ · multi-tenant architecture
Infrastructure: Kubernetes · Docker · Helm · ArgoCD · GitHub Actions · AWS
Data: PostgreSQL (CloudNativePG) · Redis · MySQL
Observability: OpenTelemetry · Grafana
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| Project | What it is | Built with |
|---|---|---|
| Blackbird · Atlan (private) | Declarative config state management: scheduled drift detection and idempotent remediation. 20–30 services use it as their config source of truth. Sanitised write-up → | Go, Temporal, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL |
| Teleport (live) | Event-driven delivery backend: transactional outbox, durable driver matching, Redis geo-discovery. | Temporal, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis |
| Taskflow (live) | Collaborative workspaces with RBAC, rank-ordered tasks, and passkey auth. | tRPC, Prisma, PostgreSQL, Redis |
| Itelcotech | Multi-tenant commerce and an on-demand AWS lab control plane with minute-level metering. | tRPC, PostgreSQL, Stripe, AWS EC2 |
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👨💻 Experience
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🧠 Software Engineer II – Platform at kAIgentic (Sep 2026 – Present)
Part of the Platform team, building the foundations reliable AI runs on. -
⚡ Software Engineer – Platform at Atlan (Nov 2024 – Jun 2026)
Part of Platform Services, owning infrastructure, developer tooling and production reliability for a data collaboration platform serving enterprises globally.- Designed and built Blackbird, a declarative config-management system in Go + Temporal with scheduled drift detection and idempotent remediation across 800–1,000 customer tenant clusters — 20–30 services now use it as their config source of truth, and config-drift P0 outages were eliminated.
- Migrated 600+ production tenants to CloudNativePG with zero data loss and zero downtime.
- Productionized Temporal workflows for database backups, state remediation and background services, replacing legacy Argo processes.
- Owned production on-call across core services and built a Claude Code plugin for early incident RCA.
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🛰️ Backend Engineer at OpeninApp (Feb 2024 – Nov 2024)
Served 1–5 million daily hits on a smart-link redirection platform; moved analytics off the OLTP MySQL database into an AWS Kinesis → S3 Parquet → Glue → Athena pipeline, and added RabbitMQ async jobs and Redis caching. -
🧩 Freelance Backend Engineer at Itelcotech (Jul 2023 – Dec 2023)
Designed the backend for a telecom learning platform — multi-tenant access, course commerce, Stripe payments, and an on-demand AWS lab control plane with minute-level metering. -
🚀 Founding Software Engineer at Relecture (Apr 2021 – Apr 2023)
First and sole engineer for two years: built the product from scratch, cut AWS costs by 80% with a serverless architecture, and hired and onboarded two engineers.
✨ More about me
- 🎓 B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering, NSHM Knowledge Campus Durgapur (2020 – 2024)
- 🌍 Google Code-in open-source contributor (2018 – 2019)
- 🏆 Hackathons: 30 + global hackathons, 8 wins 🏅 — including Best Use of Google Cloud and Best Browser Extension.
- 💡 Passionate about developer tooling, distributed systems, and open-source infrastructure.
I’m always open to collaboration, interesting conversations and new opportunities—if you like what you see, let’s build something amazing together.