I'm Mrugesh, a Software Development Engineer IV at Alation, where I own the architecture and delivery of a multi-tenant metadata automation platform serving 200+ enterprise tenants. Before that, I spent 6 years at McAfee building mission-critical security systems, and started my career at Intel on pre-silicon debug tooling. What I do day-to-day: - Design and scale distributed backend systems Build and evaluate - LLM-powered pipelines - Turn vague "it's slow" problems into measurable wins What I can help you with: - Backend & distributed systems - architecture reviews, performance tuning, consistency/debugging strategies - LLM/AI engineering - pipeline design, evaluation frameworks, prompt versioning, cost optimization - Career growth - interview prep for SDE roles, system design deep-dives, resume & portfolio feedback - Mentorship - for engineers at mid-to-senior level who want to sharpen their architectural thinking Who I help most: - Engineers with 2–7 years of experience who are either prepping for senior-level interviews, navigating a transition into distributed systems or AI/ML engineering, or simply want a second pair of eyes on their architecture decisions. I believe the best way to learn is by thinking through real problems together - not by memorizing patterns. If you've got a system design question, a performance bottleneck you can't crack, or you're stuck on a career decision, let's talk. Book a call below and let's figure it out together.