kumard@dev:~$
$ whoami

kumar d — staff engineer.

LLMs · agentic systems · distributed systems · identity · payments · commerce. eleven years of owning backend platforms end-to-end. based in bengaluru.

i try to eliminate ambiguity — in specs, in interfaces, in code.

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claude code is in my loop, every day. the judgment stays with me; the typing doesn't.

  • → features that took a week now ship in a day.
  • → review discipline unchanged. tests still hit a real database.
  • → pencil → backend → frontend → tests → deploy. one machine. me.
  • → not just coding with AI — building with it. RAG · agents · langgraph · langchain.
  • →what i delegate, what i don't — read on.
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  • 2026 —
    svadhyay · founding engineer · solo
    ~50 users in private beta. learning communities formed on their own — investing, startups — and open it daily. parents who cannot read kannada use it to teach their kids the kannada syllabus. built alone: ios + android, web, admin, go + python on k8s, RAG + langgraph, fully self-hosted models.
  • 2024 — 26
    netskope · staff engineer
    petabyte-scale telemetry made queryable — kafka into elasticsearch. one alerting platform for the whole product suite. login restored for locked-out enterprise tenants.
  • 2022 — 24
    explorex · backend & devops lead
    orders to 140k RPM. inventory as an append-only ledger. auto-settlement restored — phonepe in a week.
  • 2021 — 22
    cashfree payments · sde 3
    credential-sharing ended — partner platform on OAuth merchant impersonation via kong. ~50 partners onboarded.
  • 2018 — 21
    halodoc · sde 2 → 3
    consultation discovery 10× on elasticsearch — runs unchanged today. misool insurance — reconciliation cut by half. led 6 eng.
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