the user uploaded image B, saw image A, and filed a ticket
Order of uploads ≠ order of webhook arrival. Distributed systems are fun, until time starts lying to you.
building white canvas
with a distributed system for now
what I'm shipping →
I build backend systems that
don't flinch at scale.
I'm Venkatesh — a backend engineer thinking in systems, shipping alongside AI, and writing down what I learn along the way. Currently at Cars24 · SDE-1, building toward SDE-2.
in the lab ↓
THE PATH SO FAR
From IIT Jodhpur to engineering at scale.
2019 — 2023
B.Tech, Mechanical Engg
IIT Jodhpur
Aug 2023 — Mar 2025
Software Engineer
Cogoport · Sprinklr
Apr 2025 — now
SDE-1
Cars24 · payment & C2C systems
What's next
SDE-2
Building at deeper scale
MY NOTEBOOK
Stories, patterns, and what they taught me.
Production bugs become patterns become lessons. Short version here. Full version on LinkedIn.
№001
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№002
we shipped a feature with AI. then production started breathing fire 🔥
AI generates working code. Working ≠ production-ready. The critical read is still ours.
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№003
circuit breakers alone won't save you
Resilience is a stack, not a switch. Timeouts + breakers + ramp-up — three layers, one pattern.
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№004
half our events just… vanished
AI writes the code. Architecture decisions are still on you.
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№005
7 mistakes I made as a fresher, written down so you don't have to
Honesty beats speed. Communication beats hiding. Consistency beats genius.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The short version.
I graduated from IIT Jodhpur in 2023, interned at Aspiro, shipped my first production services at Cogoport, wrote automation at Sprinklr, and now build backend systems at Cars24.
Two questions drive most of what I do: how do you design systems that scale gracefully under chaos, and how do you pair with AI so it multiplies you instead of breaking you. Almost everything I write sits at that intersection.
I also read more than I probably should, travel when I can, and write down what I'm thinking about in the /life section. Because this site should feel like a real person maintains it.
— v.
bangalore · apr 2026
Beyond the IDE.
IF YOU'RE HIRING OR JUST CURIOUS
Let's talk systems. Or anything else.
I'm open to SDE-2 roles where systems thinking matters and AI is a tool, not a threat. Also genuinely happy to talk to engineers working on interesting backend problems — hiring or not.