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About Me

I’m a software engineer who lives for that “Hell, yeah moment”. I operate from first principles and spend my free time reading and implementing foundational computer science papers. Given the breadth of the areas I’m usually drawn and researched on, I’ve had the joy of rediscovering familiar systems as entirely new once you strip them down to their axioms—and rebuilding them better

My primary line of work is engineering and building complex backend systems. I’ve professionally worked with startups, with areas following, but not limited to:

  1. Microservice architecture
  2. Event-driven systems with RabbitMQ
  3. Golang and Node.js With Typescript
  4. Inter-service and client boundary comms with gRPC
  5. Database schema design and zero downtime migrations
  6. Large scale migrations of legacy services from Node.js to Golang for better perf and cost savings
  7. Improvement on LLM based conversational systems by adding better context management and model swapping capabilities
  8. So many more…

Professional Experience

SDE Intern - Fullstack

SpeakX[dot]ai Mar 2025 - December 2025
  • Delivered features like model swapping and context tracking in the conversational AI, providing more control and context
  • Migrated multiple services from Node.js to Golang, reducing infra costs by around 41%
  • Complete ownership of admin dashboards, delivering internal features required for operations
  • Rewritten the legacy PDF Gen worker with markdown-compilation based worker, saving 600% less memory and 4x less latency
  • Owned and executed complex schema migrations across multiple services with zero downtime
  • Contributed extensively to internal developer utilities and custom ORM frameworks, improving developer experience and maintainability.

Founding Backend Engineer

SampurnaKart Technologies Oct 2023 - Feb 2025
  • Designed and owned the entire backend architecture from scratch
  • Split the monolithic application into microservices, improving maintainability and scalability
  • Engineered a FCM based large scale notification system for 10000+ users for promotional campaigns and other notifications
  • Integrated whatsapp business API for user actions with core system and notification system