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I build the infrastructure data runs on.

Backend & data infrastructure engineer at Happy-Place (ISPG). I design streaming pipelines, lakehouses and the Python services around them — and run them in production on Kubernetes.

Fig. 1 — Happy-Place analytics, in production

CDC → stream → medallion lakehouse → query

  1. MongoDB · any DB
  2. Debezium
  3. Apache Pulsar
  4. PySpark
  5. BronzeSilverGold
  6. Trino

Debezium captures changes from any source database — MongoDB in production. Delta Lake on MinIO, orchestrated by Airflow, with each tenant isolated on Pulsar by its own credentials and policies.

ingested per day
~1.5 GB
of history, spanning a decade
3 TB
average historical query
~30 ms
freshness, real-time path
< 1 min

Selected work

2021 — now

01Happy-Place · ISPG2025 — presentIn production

Multi-tenant analytics platform

Built from concept to production. A code-driven control plane configures the whole Kubernetes cluster with four levels of data separation — conglomerate, organization, project, environment. A no-code builder generates PySpark jobs and Airflow DAGs, feeding a CDC-driven Delta Lake medallion lakehouse.

Python · FastAPI · PySpark · Airflow · Debezium · Pulsar · Delta Lake · Trino · Kubernetes · Argo CD

Read the case study →
02Happy-Place · ISPG2026 — presentArchitecting

Search, discovery & recommendations

The engine behind how people find things on a marketplace built for commerce across many countries. Heavily nested product documents, hybrid keyword and vector retrieval, and the MLOps around the models that rank them.

Go · MongoDB · OpenSearch · vector embeddings · Qwen · MLOps

  • NeoTokyo commerce platform

    Standalone B2C / B2B / enterprise store for a PC and server retailer, with a WhatsApp Business tool and helpdesk.

    Django · DRF · Celery — in development

  • TeeTime

    Golf booking platform designed for many countries, many timezones and thousands of concurrent users.

    NestJS · GraphQL · PostgreSQL · Redis — Fleapo

  • Dieture

    Food delivery backend scaled to three countries and 5,000+ active users.

    Node.js · gRPC microservices — Iotics

  • Cluster security audit

    Self-initiated penetration test of internal deployments; found critical CVEs including RCE in Kafka UI.

    Pentest · CVE analysis · remediation

Experience

Five years across product companies and agencies in India and the UAE — moving steadily from APIs toward the data underneath them.

  1. Nov 2025 — nowHappy-Place
    Software Engineer, backend & data infra
  2. May — Oct 2025ISPG
    Software Engineer
  3. Oct 2024 — Feb 2025Fleapo
    Senior Full Stack Developer
  4. Apr — Sep 2024Iotics (UAE, remote)
    Senior Backend Developer
  5. Feb 2022 — Apr 2024NewAgeSmb
    Backend Developer
  6. Aug 2021 — Jan 2022Brototype
    MERN Stack Intern

Stack

Languages

  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • Go
  • SQL

Data

  • PySpark · Airflow
  • Pulsar · Kafka · Debezium
  • Delta Lake · Trino · MinIO
  • OpenSearch

Backend

  • FastAPI · Django · DRF
  • asyncio · Pydantic
  • NestJS · gRPC · GraphQL
  • PostgreSQL · Redis · MongoDB

Platform

  • Kubernetes · Helm
  • Argo CD · Docker
  • AWS · Cloudflare
  • Prometheus · Grafana

Enquiries

Building something that has to move a lot of data?

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