SDE-1 @ Shiprocket · IIT Kanpur · Building systems that scale

I work on ad-tech infrastructure — competitor intelligence pipelines, AI-powered ad generation, and the data systems underneath them. My day-to-day is Java Spring Boot and Python, with Kafka, MongoDB, and ClickHouse in the mix.

Long-term, I'm going deep on system design and distributed systems. Not just as a skill for interviews — as a craft.

🔭 What I'm Working On

• Ad Studio — competitor intelligence platform at Shiprocket. Kafka-based CQRS, distributed scraping with TLS fingerprinting and rotating proxies, ClickHouse for analytics.
• AI Ad Generation Pipeline — end-to-end pipeline using Gemini (batch API), Kling, and FAL for video and image ad generation.

🛠 Stack

Primary

Data & Messaging

Infrastructure

Currently Going Deeper On

Distributed Systems System Design JVM Internals Clean Architecture

✍️ Writing

I write on Medium — focused on making hard internals approachable.

• 📊 The Payload Tax: Why My 150ms Query Took 82 Seconds
• 🔁 Spring's Transactional Annotation
• 🔌 Sockets Demystified: The Basics Every Developer Should Know
• ⚙️ How a Single Thread Handles Thousands of Connections: Event Loops with poll()

🧑‍💼 Background

• SDE-1, Shiprocket — Gurugram, India
• AI Engineer Intern — Invisible Technologies

🎓 Education

B.Tech. Electrical Engineering — IIT Kanpur, India (2025) Relevant coursework: Data Structures & Algorithms, Linux Kernel, Computer Networking

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