Bengaluru, India · Open to 2+ year SWE roles
Hi, I'm Amal.
Software engineer with 2+ years in production — backends, AI pipelines, and real-time systems. I own the path from design to a running service, then write up how it works.
Writing
Engineering notes from production.
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Your position gapped while you were offline: liquidation fairness via offline replay
A phone is off for eight minutes. A goal gaps the price. Their position should have died. At what price do you close it?
GoFintechTrading SystemsRisk EnginesFTL16 min read
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Redis for speed, Postgres for truth: building a crash-safe write-behind layer
We silently dropped 4,364 price ticks. No error, no alert, green dashboards. Here's the design where dropping is impossible by construction.
GoRedisPostgreSQLDistributed SystemsFTL12 min read
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Streaming live prices to 50K users on a $200/month budget
Staging was burning ₹1,234 a day. Every dashboard was green. Here's how we streamed live prices to 50K phones on a $200 credit.
GoWebSocketsSystem DesignLow LatencyFTL14 min read
Elsewhere
Code, publicly.
Let's build something together.
I'm looking for full-time software engineer roles that ask for 2+ years — backend, AI infrastructure, or distributed systems. If that is the seat, say hi.
amalkrishnam3@gmail.com