Hi ๐, I'm Sriram
A software engineer from India
Senior Consultant & Backend Engineer Distributed Systems โข AI โข Agentic Applications
AI-first engineer with 4+ years building and scaling high-performance distributed systems across AI, RegTech, EdTech and infrastructure domains. I integrate AI workflows and tooling into every stage of development - from design and code generation to testing, debugging and deployment.I have hands-on experience designing microservices, cloud-native APIs and data pipelines on AWS.
| ๐ 2.5M+ monthly AI generations | ๐ 100ร YoY growth |
| ๐ง 10+ microservices in production | ๐ซ Bootcamps @ Navi, Vedantu, Porter |
How I work
AI-first across the board - I use LLM-assisted workflows for architecture decisions, code review, test generation, and debugging. I build tools that embed AI into products and use AI tools to build faster.
What I'm working on
- Research Intelligence Platform โ building agentic search so researchers can surface relevant experiments and insights faster
Experience
Beskar Technologies
Senior Consultant ยท Apr 2025 โ Present
- Architected a multi-tenant CMS for an EdTech client supporting hierarchical organisations (Districts, Schools, Learners) with structured content authoring and role-based access control.
- Built full-text search across 100K+ content items using PostgreSQL GIN trigram indexes (pg_trgm), achieving sub-200ms response times with zero query-layer changes.
- Integrated AWS Cognito authentication, analytics dashboards, and CSV/Excel exports serving all tenant roles end-to-end.
- Built an end-to-end ELT pipeline for a RegTech client combining web scraping, Dagster orchestration and Elasticsearch indexing - enabling fast, searchable access to external datasets.
- Designed a Dagster-powered operations dashboard with real-time visibility into job statuses, schedules and run history with parameterised on-demand triggering for non-technical users.
- Driving engineering best practices โ code review standards, testing culture and observability adoption - across the consulting team.
Junior Associate ยท Sep 2021 โ Jun 2025
- Built production microservices for a high-throughput AI generation platform in Go and Python, including distributed job queuing, model routing and agentic prompt chaining pipelines.
- Scaled backend infrastructure to handle 2.5M+ monthly generations, achieving 100ร year-over-year growth through performance profiling and horizontal scaling on AWS.
- Spearheaded CI/CD pipeline implementation and integration testing, significantly reducing production defects across distributed services.
- Developed a 0-to-1 digital signature system for a Quality Management client, streamlining document collaboration, signing and compliance workflows for external users.
- Designed and deployed a centralised observability stack (logs, metrics, distributed traces) across 10+ microservices using Grafana, Prometheus, Loki and Tempo - reducing mean time to debug.
- Built an Android application and Java backend for a consumer-facing crypto platform, including integration with external wallet infrastructure for secure transaction flows.
- Designed and delivered technical bootcamps for various companies on OOP, TDD, Clean Code, Agile, JS, ReactJS, Kotlin & Design patterns.
Kuliza Technologies ยท Intern ยท Feb 2021 โ Jul 2021
- Developed a keyword-based threat detection system to proactively identify admin policy violations.
Stack
Writing
I write about distributed systems, AI and engineering on Substack. โ sriramkk.substack.com
Links
๐ sriramkk.in ยท ๐ผ linkedin.com/in/sriramkk916 ยท โ๏ธ sriramkk.substack.com