Hiring profile

Senior Backend Engineer

I build reliable backend and data systems where architecture, migration, production operation, and recovery all matter.

13+ years · About five years owning production data infrastructure · India-based · remote worldwide

Hiring thesis

I work best on ambiguous backend problems that need architecture ownership, safe migrations, production responsibility, and measurable product outcomes.

Relevant role fit: Senior Software Engineer — Backend · Senior Platform Engineer · Senior Data Platform Engineer · Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer · Founding Engineer

Production proof

Ownership · system · scale

Data platform

I owned the rebuild of customer and order data infrastructure serving 200+ merchants across five commerce platforms across five commerce platforms. Webhook freshness moved from days-late batch data to sub-minute.

Days → sub-minute webhook freshness

Ownership · product · adoption

Recommendation system

I initiated and built a three-tier recommendation product, from trust-first manual blocks to live ranking across five regions.

80%+ of merchants who trialled Smart tier adopted it

Ownership · data product · rollout

Customer segmentation

I owned the query model and builder that unified four source systems for Customer Success teams.

1,000+ active segments within six months of launch
Selected work · recommended reading order

Start with the data platform, then read the production incident. These show architecture ownership and operational judgment fastest.

Production incident · technical deep dive

I stopped a production migration when a 50M-row CDC snapshot began blocking writes.

Debezium consumed 60% CPU. I stopped the snapshot, used the existing Datastream path to recover, and changed the rollout strategy.

Read the incident and recovery decisions →
Incident record · ten hard problems

A decade of production lessons: query shape, lock contention, silent data failure, memory pressure, database constraints, resilience patterns, and the judgment to trade freshness for stability when the system needs it.

Read all ten incident records →
Independent products

Supporting evidence of founding-engineer range: product decisions, backend, UX, AI integration, and deployment.

Next step

Hiring for a senior backend engineer who can own a difficult system end to end?

Start with the general resume, then email me with the system you need owned.