Who's writing this API?
Backend engineer with 2+ years shipping production systems from Lucknow.
I'm currently at Simpel AI, Lucknow, building backend systems with Laravel and PHP for AI-powered applications.
My foundation is Laravel and PHP, but the Node.js ecosystem — TypeScript, NestJS, Express — now sits alongside the PHP work day-to-day. I'm drawn to the infrastructure layer: queues, caches, and the systems that keep distributed services honest.
Right now: working through DDIA cover to cover, grinding LeetCode, and shipping side projects in public instead of leaving them to rot in private repos.
How a request moves through my systems
Stack laid out as a pipeline — the way I actually reason about it — boxed by the infrastructure that keeps it running.
hover a node · dashed lines are the request path · dots show data actually moving
Client Request
API Layer
Message Queue
Cache & Idempotency
Databases
Greenfield Timesheet (Client)
Live in productionA greenfield timesheet platform I designed, built, and still own end to end — not a tutorial clone. It's been running in production long enough to have real load, real edge cases, and a real on-call rotation of one.
Numbers, not vibes
Latest posts
I write up what I build — the failure modes, not just the happy path.
Designing a Timeline API: The Simplicity of Fan-out-on-Read
Designing a Timeline API: The Simplicity of Fan-out-on-Read.
From CRUD to Distributed Systems: Why I'm Building a Twitter Timeline Service (and Documenting Every Phase)
A breakdown of Twitter's fan-out architecture - and why optimizing for reads over writes was one of the most elegant tradeoffs in social media engineering.
Dead Letter Queues: Building Reliable Distributed Systems That Don't Lose Messages
Retries alone aren't enough. Learn how Dead Letter Queues isolate poison messages, preserve failures for debugging, and keep distributed systems reliable.
Deploy history
Software Development Engineer
Current- ▹Building backend services using Laravel and PHP for AI-powered applications
- ▹Designing and implementing RESTful APIs and database schemas
- ▹Optimizing application performance and database queries
- ▹Collaborating with frontend team for seamless integration
Software Developer Intern
internship- ▹Developed and maintained backend services for JGH Reward App
- ▹Implemented REST APIs and integrated third-party services like Decetro Payment system to perform real time payment
- ▹Worked with MySQl, idempotency and fault-tolerant system
- ▹Participated in code reviews and architectural discussions
Software Developer Intern
internship- ▹Developed and maintained backend services for web applications
- ▹Implemented REST APIs and integrated third-party services like phonePay payment gateway
- ▹worked with firebase, Redis for data management and nextjs
- ▹owned end to end flow of payments and authorized access of course content
Get in touch
Open to new opportunities. Whether you want to collaborate, have a question, or just want to say hi — I'll respond.