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.
Pagination Is Not a Detail You Take Lightly
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.
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.