About me: Who I'm helping on Topmate: ▸ Senior engineers preparing for the EM, Tech Lead, or Principal interview loop at a new company ▸ Senior engineers cracking system design interviews at FAANG, top Indian product companies, and scaled startups ▸ First-time engineering managers — navigating team management, people decisions, and the transition from IC to leader in the first 1–2 years on the job ▸ SDE-2 / SDE-3 engineers figuring out their next move — promotion, switch, or pivot into a new domain (e-commerce, payments, supply chain, ML systems) How I work: Direct, specific, and honest. We work on your situation — your actual review, your actual interview loop. No fluff. No guru talk. For engineers cracking system design interviews: I bring real systems I've built into the conversation — Flipkart's Product Page at 1M RPS during Big Billion Days, BigBasket's quick-commerce architecture, real-time inventory reservation under concurrent load. We'll focus on where interviewers actually stress you — corner cases, failure modes, scaling assumptions, and the trade-offs that look obvious until you're three follow-ups deep. For engineers cracking EM interviews and new first-time managers: I've taken many EM interviews across Flipkart, PayPal, BigBasket — I know what hiring committees actually debate, and what gets through versus what doesn't. We work on your full interview prep — system design, behavioral, people scenarios, org-level questions. And if you've just stepped into management, on the things that quietly trip up first-time managers: giving honest feedback, your first performance conversations, hiring well, building trust with skeptical engineers, and learning to measure your impact differently than you did as an IC.