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Kiran Kamalakar

@kiranbuilds

Building high-performance backend and blockchain systems for secure, real-world financial use.

Building high-performance backend and blockchain systems for secure, real-world financial use.

Tempe, United States

πŸ‘‹ About Me

Backend and distributed systems engineer currently pursuing an MS in Computer Science at Arizona State University. I have 4+ years of industry experience working on production-grade systems with strict requirements around latency, availability, and correctness.

I enjoy building infrastructure-heavy systems that scale predictably and behave well under real-world load.


βš™οΈ Backend & Distributed Systems

My primary experience is in designing, building, and scaling backend services and distributed systems.

  • Built microservice architectures using REST and gRPC
  • Designed real-time and batch data pipelines using Kafka and event-driven patterns
  • Worked extensively with PostgreSQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch for low-latency access
  • Optimized query patterns, indexing strategies, and caching layers
  • Focused on correctness, idempotency, and data integrity in distributed workflows

☁️ Cloud, Infrastructure & Reliability

I have hands-on experience running production systems on AWS.

  • Containerized services using Docker and Kubernetes
  • Provisioned infrastructure using Terraform and Terraform CDK
  • Built CI/CD pipelines and standardized deployment workflows
  • Improved observability using metrics, logs, dashboards, and alerts
  • Worked with autoscaling, capacity planning, and fault isolation

πŸ”— Blockchain & Financial Infrastructure

I have worked across both on-chain and off-chain components of blockchain systems.

  • Designed and implemented smart contracts with comprehensive test suites
  • Built backend services for transaction ingestion and indexing
  • Worked on reliability-critical infrastructure for financial applications
  • Designed pipelines where consistency, ordering, and correctness are essential

πŸš€ What I Like to Build

I enjoy working on projects that:

  • Go beyond demos and can realistically be taken to production
  • Involve performance tuning, scalability, and reliability trade-offs
  • Require solid system design and operational thinking

🀝 Let’s Build

Always happy to collaborate on backend, distributed systems, and blockchain infrastructure projects.
Here to BUIDL systems that work in the real world.