Available for Backend & Distributed Systems

Hi, I'm Dakshin

Software Engineer

I design and scale high-throughput, multi-tenant backend systems and distributed event pipelines. Over 6+ years in production, I’ve spearheaded architectures serving millions of daily requests, with a client-first focus on reliability, resilience, and trust.

Worked with engineering teams at
systems.telemetry.cluster_01
LIVE
THROUGHPUT 1,420,850 events / sec
P99 LATENCY 3.8 ms end-to-end
PARTITION LAG 0 messages
Producers Ingestion
Kafka Partition Broker 12
Consumers Processing
Auto-scaled 4 partition workers

About.

Software engineering is fundamentally multi-dimensional, living at the intersection of time, scale, and trade-offs. Building for Big Tech scale can paralyze a growing team with operational complexity, while building only for immediate delivery fails under enterprise load. Recognizing those boundaries is what separates an engineer from a programmer.

Throughout my career, I’ve architected systems with long-term maintainability at the core, balancing technical debt against business delivery and earning user trust through clarity, operational resilience, and predictable performance. Today, I actively engineer AI workflows that automate end-to-end development, leveraging grounded data to ensure automated systems remain reliable, deterministic, and production-ready.

99.99% Production Uptime SLA
Millions Daily Requests Processed
< 200ms P99 Response Time Under Load
CORE FOCUS:
Distributed Systems Event Streaming Storage Trade-offs Cloud & Microservices Agentic AI
📍 Bangalore, India
6+ YOE • Backend
Dakshin - Portrait
Dakshin Distributed Systems • Backend

My Tech Stack

A few of the technologies I enjoy working with.

Java logo
Java
Go logo
Go
JavaScript logo
JavaScript
Python logo
Python
Spring Boot logo
Spring Boot
AWS logo AWS logo
AWS
Apache Kafka logo Apache Kafka logo
Apache Kafka
Apache Flink logo
Apache Flink
PostgreSQL logo
PostgreSQL
MongoDB logo
MongoDB
Apache Cassandra logo Apache Cassandra logo
Apache Cassandra
Redis logo
Redis
Elasticsearch logo
Elasticsearch
Terraform logo
Terraform
Docker logo
Docker
Kubernetes logo
Kubernetes
Bazel logo
Bazel
Open Telemetry logo
Open Telemetry
Datadog logo Datadog logo
Datadog
OpenAI logo OpenAI logo
OpenAI
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Claude
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