About me

I'm a backend engineer with 11+ years of production experience building payment platforms and distributed systems at companies like PayPal and Goldman Sachs. My core stack is Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, microservices, PostgreSQL, and AWS — but what I bring to mentoring isn't just a tech list. It's 11 years of real decisions, real trade-offs, and real mistakes that shaped how I think about software. I work with people at different stages: Freshers & early-career developers — building genuine Java fundamentals, understanding how production code actually works, and navigating your first 2–3 years without wasting time on the wrong things Mid-level engineers — preparing for senior roles, going deeper on system design, Kafka, concurrency, and distributed systems Interview candidates — mock system design sessions, Java deep-dives, and honest feedback on where you stand and what to fix What you can expect from a session: Straight talk. No hand-holding, no sugar-coating. I'll tell you exactly what's strong, what's weak, and what to do next. If you're serious about growing, that's more useful than encouragement. A bit of context: I've built systems that process millions of transactions, worked in high-pressure fintech environments, and recently taken time to reflect on what actually makes engineers grow. That perspective is what I bring into every session.