Senior Backend Engineer with 6+ years of experience designing and operating backend systems, microservices, and distributed architectures.

I focus on building reliable, observable, and scalable systems, with a strong interest in:

• Distributed systems & messaging
• Service-to-service communication (gRPC)
• Observability & production readiness
• System design trade-offs

I enjoy going deep into why systems behave the way they do, not just how to wire them together.

• Languages: Go, Node.js (TypeScript)
• Backend & APIs: gRPC, REST, NestJS
• Datastores: PostgreSQL, Redis
• Messaging: RabbitMQ (AMQP), event-driven systems
• Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes (KIND), AWS
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry
• Architecture: Microservices, async workflows, idempotency, retries, backoff, graceful shutdowns

I actively write about real-world backend and distributed systems topics, with a strong focus on production correctness, failure handling, and operational trade-offs.

• Transactional Outbox with RabbitMQ (Series)

  • Reliable event publishing from relational databases
  • Retry strategies, backoff, and dead-letter queues
  • Consumer-side reliability and observability
  • Designing for at-least-once delivery and idempotency

• Understanding gRPC Client-Side Load Balancing with DNS

  • gRPC name resolution
  • Client-side load balancing trade-offs
  • Practical production considerations

• Designing Go Microservices (Series)

  • Project structure, configuration, structured logging
  • gRPC servers, graceful shutdowns, Docker & Makefiles
  • PostgreSQL integration, Redis caching
  • Prometheus metrics, OpenTelemetry tracing, health checks

📌 I share shorter insights and architecture diagrams on LinkedIn, and deeper technical write-ups on dev.to.

• Clean architecture & clear service boundaries
• Failure handling (timeouts, retries, idempotency)
• Production observability before “pretty dashboards”
• Systems that fail predictably, not silently
• Long-term maintainability over short-term hacks

I’m interested in senior backend / distributed systems roles with:

• Strong engineering culture
• Real production scale
• Emphasis on correctness, reliability, and learning
• Remote-first or relocation-friendly environments (EU / global)

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sagarmaheshwary/
• dev.to: https://dev.to/sagarmaheshwary
• GitHub: You’re already here 🙂