Software Engineer focused on backend systems, distributed architectures, and platform engineering. I build real-time, high-scale systems that process tens of millions of events per day, improve developer velocity, and reduce infrastructure costs at scale.
- Design for scale first, optimize for simplicity
- Prefer event-driven, decoupled systems
- Measure everything — latency, cost, reliability
- Build platforms, not one-off features
- Optimize for long-term developer productivity
- Architect and ship backend & platform systems end-to-end
- Build event-driven pipelines (Kafka, Flink, real-time rule engines)
- Design low-latency, high-throughput services
- Drive infra efficiency & cost optimization
- Improve CI/CD, DORA metrics, and reliability
- Own systems from HLD → production → scale
- Real-time rule engines processing 50M+ events/day
- Streaming ETL pipelines with 99.9% latency reduction
- Reward & incentive platforms with real-time computation
- Org-wide communication infrastructure (WebSocket-as-a-Service)
- CRM & lead orchestration platforms used by 100K+ DAUs
- Cost-optimized infra saving $200K+ annually
- 🚀 Reduced critical API latencies by 90%
- 💰 Cut infra costs by 50% using Redis compression & optimizations
- ⚙️ Improved deployment cycles by 40%
- 🧠 Drove org-wide adoption of internal platforms (70–90% adoption)
- 🔁 Improved system uptime to 99.9%
- 🧪 Strengthened CI/CD → lower CFR, faster releases
- ✏️ Technical blogger on backend & system design (10K+ readers)
- 🌱 Former GDSC Lead, scaled community to 2K+ developers
- 🎤 Mentor & speaker at tech meetups and student conferences
- 🏆 Hackathon winner (Best Health Hack)
- Curious about how large systems fail — and how to design them better
- Enjoy drawing & playing guitar
- Strong believer in writing readable, boring, reliable code
📫 Reach Me
- Email: skhuntwal123@gmail.com
- Blog: https://sidlyf.com
- Medium: https://medium.com/@skhuntwal123
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sidlyf