Software engineer — India, works anywhere

ASiSH

Backend, infrastructure and the web — built to hold up.

I build the parts of software that have to be right: APIs and queues that stay correct under load, clusters that stay boring, and the sites and apps on top of them. Go first, then Python, Java and TypeScript. Two Google Summer of Code projects, a Linux Foundation mentorship, and production backends at Deccan AI and Keploy.

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Open to full-time, contract and freelance work.

Good software begins when correctness and performance stop being a trade-off.

Most systems don’t fail because of a missing feature. They fail at the seams: a protocol nobody decoded properly, a queue that drops under load, a test suite that lies. That’s the work I like — the infrastructure, databases and developer tools underneath the product, and the clean interface on top.

Selected work

AK–01
CostObs
LLM cost tracking, self-hosted
Per-request LLM cost across customers, features and models. SDKs in Python, TypeScript and Go wrap any provider client without adding latency; a multi-tenant Go + ClickHouse backend batch-ingests events and answers cost breakdowns in under a second.
- Go
- ClickHouse
- PostgreSQL
- Python
- TypeScript
- Kubernetes
AK–02
RecastAI
AI video narration pipeline
Turns screen recordings into narrated videos: a Gemini multimodal pass, word-level TTS alignment and FFmpeg muxing, run as a four-stage RabbitMQ pipeline with Redis pub/sub progress over WebSockets, OpenTelemetry tracing and a Helm-deployed Kubernetes rollout.
Source on GitHub
- Go
- Python
- RabbitMQ
- Redis
- FFmpeg
- OpenTelemetry
- Kubernetes
AK–03
MongoDB wire-protocol mock engine
Keploy
Decodes MongoDB's native wire protocol from raw bytes, no driver involved, and uses concurrent fingerprint matching to replay the right recorded response to each live database call, so tests run deterministically without a database.
- Go
- MongoDB
- Keploy
AK–04
Kubernetes record & replay
Keploy
Low-latency capture of live traffic inside a cluster, replay controls, and mocking across seven protocol dependencies including gRPC, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Redis. Plus UNIX-socket test de-duplication for Go and Java that merges per-test coverage.
- Kubernetes
- Go
- Java
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
- Apache Kafka
AK–05
Contributor analytics for CHAOSS
Google Summer of Code 2025
An end-to-end contributor-analytics feature for open-source maintainers: a new data model and collection worker in Augur, and funnel and radar charts in 8Knot that show contributor retention and activity.
- Python
- PostgreSQL
- CHAOSS
- Google Summer of Code
AK–06
Sparse checkout for KCL's package manager
Linux Foundation Mentorship 2024
Lets KPM add a single sub-directory of a repository as a third-party dependency instead of cloning the whole thing. Also, for TARDIS (GSoC 2024): 30 benchmarks covering 80% of the codebase and a 20% faster CI.
- Go
- KCL
- Linux Foundation
- GitHub Actions

The best backend is the one you stop thinking about. I build the kind that stays quiet at 3 a.m.

Protocol-level work, queues, caches, clusters, test infrastructure — and a clean web front on top when you need one. If you have a system that keeps you up, let’s talk about it.

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Services

What I
build

Full-time, contract or freelance. Small scoped task first if that’s easier.

Backend & APIs
Services that stay correct under load: REST and gRPC APIs, queues, workers, caching, rate limiting, observability from day one.
- Go
- Python
- Java
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Apache Kafka
Infrastructure & cloud
Kubernetes, AWS, Docker and Helm; CI pipelines that are fast and boring; metrics and tracing with Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Docker
- Helm
- Prometheus
- OpenTelemetry
Websites & web apps
Marketing sites, dashboards and full products in React and Next.js, with the backend to match. This site is one.
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- Node.js
Developer tools & automation
Testing infrastructure, record/replay, protocol work, CLIs, scrapers and the glue scripts nobody else wants to write.
- Go
- Python
- GitHub Actions
- MongoDB
- ClickHouse

Experience

Where the work
was done

AI Backend Engineer
June 2026 — present · Hyderabad
- Own the backend for Deccan Vault, an enterprise AI training-data catalog: dataset packaging moved off the API onto AWS Lambda, public surface protected with Redis rate limiting.
- Building the orchestration platform that runs automated AI quality and evaluation pipelines for the annotation system, on Kafka, PostgreSQL and a fault-tolerant async worker pool.
Keploy
Software Engineer
August 2025 — May 2026 · Bangalore
- MongoDB wire-protocol mock engine; Kubernetes recording and replay across seven protocols.
- Extended the AI Java unit-test generation backend behind the VS Code extension (1.2M+ installs): Spring Boot and Maven support, JaCoCo coverage parsing.
- UNIX-socket-based de-duplication of Go and Java tests, merging per-test coverage.
Google Summer of Code — CHAOSS
Open-source contributor
May — August 2025 · Remote
- Contributor analytics end to end: Augur data model and collection worker, 8Knot funnel and radar charts.
Google Summer of Code — TARDIS
Open-source contributor
May — September 2024 · Remote
- 30 benchmarks covering 80% of the codebase; GitHub Actions caching and setup that cut CI runtime by 20%.
Linux Foundation Mentorship — KCL
Open-source contributor
June — August 2024 · Remote
- Sparse-checkout support in KPM, so a repository sub-directory can be a third-party dependency.