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kumar d — staff engineer.

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

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

→ now: available

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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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2025 — 26
svadhyay · solo consultant · end-to-end
built a quiet AI tutor for students — single-handed across every surface. mobile (ios + android), web app, admin, marketing site, and the go + python backend on k8s. RAG + langgraph agents over PDF/EPUB libraries. in closed beta.
2024 — 26
netskope (infiot) · staff engineer
owned the IDP platform end-to-end. SAML / OIDC. enterprise tenants.
2022 — 24
explorex · lead backend
orders to 140k RPM. inventory as an append-only ledger. payments rebuild — phonepe in a week.
2021 — 22
cashfree payments · sde 3
partner platform with OAuth merchant impersonation via kong.
2019 — 21
halodoc · sde 2 → 3
led 6 eng. misool insurance — reconciliation -50%. search rebuild on elasticsearch.

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