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available_for_hire = true·IIT_Roorkee · 2+ yrs · Bangalore

Hi, I'mAryan Jain.

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APIs, queues, caches, and the boring-fast plumbing in between.

1M+
req / day
99.9%
uptime
70K
players indexed
<200ms
p99 latency
01//About
aryan@portfolio: ~/about
>whoami
Aryan Jain — backend-first engineer who doesn't stop at the backend.
Comfortable owning the full slice: API design → data layer → infra → deployment. Currently targeting Senior Backend / AI Backend roles at product companies that take latency, correctness, and developer ergonomics seriously.
location
Bangalore, IN
timezone
IST · UTC+5:30
status
Open to work
since
2024 → now
Currently
Senior Backend
@ Xarterian, building a high-traffic gateway, auctions, and a player-similarity engine.
Transitioning to
AI Backend
Embeddings, vector search, function calling — the unglamorous wiring around models.
02//Skills

The tools, sorted by which hat I'm wearing.

Languages

5/5
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaC++

Backend

7/7
Node.jsNestJSFastifyExpressGraphQLgRPCREST

Frontend

0/4
React.jsNext.jsTailwind CSSRedux

Data

4/4
MongoDBRedisPostgreSQLFirebase

DevOps · Infra

1/7
DockerKubernetesGCPAWSCI/CDGitHub ActionsNginx

AI · ML

1/5
LLM APIsEmbeddingspgvectorRAG pipelinesLangChain.js
03//Selected work

Sorted for a Backend hire.

BE
50ms bid latency

Cricket Live Auction Engine

Redis-first bidding with Redlock, Socket.io fan-out, Bull queues. Held under 5K concurrent users.

RedisSocket.ioBullNode.js
BEDevOps
1M+ req/day

High-Performance API Gateway

12-stage middleware pipeline with Lua rate limiter, circuit breaker, K8s hot-reload and OpenTelemetry tracing.

Node.jsLuaKubernetesOpenTelemetryRedis
BE
<200ms p99

Real-time Notification Pipeline

Toss, wickets and milestones over Redis pub/sub with distributed locking and dedupe windows.

RedisPub/SubNode.js
BEAI
70K players indexed

Player Similarity Engine

HNSW-indexed vector search over 70K cricketers using cosine similarity and rich feature embeddings.

pgvectorHNSWPostgreSQLPython
BEDevOps
99.9% uptime

Cricket Live Score Platform

Real-time data ingestion across Redis + MongoDB with a management panel that supports revert-to-source.

RedisMongoDBDockerNginx
DevOpsBE
4× payload reduction

Apollo Gateway Observability

Prometheus, New Relic, Last9 OpenAPM and a compression middleware that cut payloads by 4×.

PrometheusNew RelicGraphQLApollo
04//Experience

The receipts.

Xarterian

Apr 2024 — Present
Software Developer · Product Engineer
  • Owned an API gateway that sustained 1M+ req/day with sub-200ms p99 across 6 downstream services.
  • Designed a Redis-first live auction engine — 5K concurrent users, Redlock for correctness, Socket.io for fan-out.
  • Stood up Prometheus + Last9 observability on Apollo Gateway; cut wire payload size by ~4× via compression middleware.
  • Shipped a vector-search player-similarity service (HNSW, pgvector) used by product surfaces and editors.

IIT Roorkee

2017 — 2021
B.Tech, Electrical Engineering
  • AIR 1103, JEE Advanced.
  • Coursework in algorithms, networks, signal processing and probability.
05//Currently learning

Sharpening for the next role.

transitioning → AI Backend Engineer

LLM APIs & function calling

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Vector DBs & RAG pipelines

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LangChain.js · LangGraph.js

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06//Contact
looking for
  • Senior Backend / AI Backend roles
  • Product companies that take latency seriously
  • Remote-first or Bangalore
  • Teams that ship and measure
── EOF · thanks for reading
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