@kiranbuilds
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
π 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.
βοΈ 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
βοΈ 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
π 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
π 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
π€ Letβs Build
Always happy to collaborate on backend, distributed systems, and blockchain infrastructure projects.
Here to BUIDL systems that work in the real world.