Backend Engineer
I build reliable financial systems with Go, Kafka, and Temporal. From event streams to workflow orchestration, I care about what happens after software meets production.
Software engineer · 4+ years
Selected systems
01
Event streaming architecture
Designed the core event-driven architecture for loan creation, using Kafka consumers and Temporal Signals to continue financial workflows as asynchronous financier decisions arrive.
Events → signals → durable workflow
2024
Async approvals
Replayable failures
02
Reliability standard
Established a team-wide DLQ pattern for Kafka consumers to isolate failures, prevent cascading incidents, and make failed financial transactions straightforward to inspect and reprocess.
Consumer fails → job scheduler sends 3 retries to DLQ
2024
Zero data loss focus
Team-wide adoption
03
Workflow migration
Migrated critical financial batch processes into observable workflows with automated alerts, reducing manual monitoring and surfacing failures before they become operational incidents.
Scheduled jobs · visible execution
2025
15+ jobs migrated
Automated alerts
04
Repayment adjustments
Developed EMI reduction and tenure reduction capabilities for longer-tenure loans, covering backend workflow changes for repayment adjustments.
Two repayment adjustment options
2026
EMI reduction
Tenure reduction
Open source
Open work, experiments, and practical notes from the systems I build.
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A Go durable workflow engine learning project with a Next.js dashboard
Two phase commit demonstration in go
Standalone Go agent runtime prototype with streaming, tool calls, and OpenRouter support.
Open source repository by Nishanth Gowda.
An advanced LRU implementation inspired by MySQL InnoDB's buffer pool management strategy.
My story
I am a backend engineer focused on reliable financial systems. I have worked across loan creation, approval pipelines, batch migrations, profiling, and serverless platforms.
I like systems where the failure modes are designed as carefully as the happy path: observable workflows, replayable events, and operational choices that hold up in production.
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