I’m a Staff-level Backend Engineer & Engineering Leader with 13+ years of experience building and scaling high-impact distributed systems at Google, Amazon, Meta, Uber, and most recently ByteDance.
I’ve worked across the full spectrum: from hands-on system design and coding to leading large teams, interviewing at scale, and shaping platform strategy. My work has powered systems serving 100M+ users, 20k+ QPS, and petabyte-scale data pipelines, across payments, logistics, customer support, and enterprise platforms.

Today, I mentor engineers who want to:
1. Break into senior/staff/lead roles
2. Crack system design interviews
3. Grow from strong IC → tech lead → engineering manager
4. Build career clarity during transitions (job change, layoffs, relocations)
5. Financial planning

🧠 What I Can Help You With
🔹 System Design & Backend Engineering
1. Designing scalable, low-latency systems (microservices, APIs, data pipelines)
2. Trade-offs: SQL vs NoSQL, caching, sharding, async systems
3. Writing clean, SOLID, production-grade code (Java, Go, Python)

🔹 Interview Preparation (Real-World Focus)
1. FAANG-style system design interviews
2. Backend coding interviews (DSA with practical intuition)
3. Behavioral & leadership interviews (STAR, impact storytelling)
4. Mock interviews with brutally honest feedback
5. I’ve conducted 500+ interviews across Google, Amazon, Meta, and ByteDance.

🔹 Career Growth & Leadership
1. Promotion path: Senior → Staff → Principal
2. Moving from IC to Tech Lead / EM
3. Influence without authority
4. Navigating performance reviews & org politics (the real stuff)

🔹 Resume, LinkedIn & Personal Brand
1. Resume restructuring for Staff/Lead roles
2. Strong impact-focused bullets
3. Positioning yourself for global roles (US / Europe / UAE)

🏗 My Background (Quick Snapshot)
Google Pay – Led backend & mobile teams; built UPI 2.0 at national scale
Amazon – Large-scale logistics & route optimization systems
Meta – Led Customer Support Engineering org
Uber – Payments & Compliance platforms
ByteDance (Dubai) – Platform & product systems (0→1 launches)

Tech I work with regularly:
Java, Go, Python, Spring Boot, SQL, Redis, Kafka, Kinesis, GCP, AWS, Microservices, Distributed Systems

🎯 Mentorship Style
1. Practical, structured, and honest
2. No generic advice—everything is context-driven
3. Clear action plans after every session
4. I treat your goals like a real engineering problem to solve
5. Whether you’re stuck, preparing for a big interview, or planning your next 5-year move—I’ll help you think clearly and execute confidently.