I'm a Software Development Engineer II (Backend) at Lowe's India with 4+ years of experience designing and building scalable backend systems. My expertise includes Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Microservices, Distributed Systems, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and production observability using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Zipkin. Throughout my career, I've contributed to high-scale platforms handling millions of daily events, led critical modernization initiatives, improved system performance, and built resilient event-driven architectures. More recently, I've also been working on production AI and Agentic systems using Python, Google ADK, and prompt engineering. Beyond engineering, I enjoy mentoring developers and sharing practical knowledge gained from real production systems. My goal is to help software engineers grow into confident backend developers by focusing on concepts that matter in industry—not just interview theory. I can help with: * Backend Interview Preparation (SDE-1 / SDE-2) * Java & Spring Boot * Kafka & Event-Driven Architecture * System Design * Microservices & Distributed Systems * Production Debugging & Performance Optimization * AI Agent Development Fundamentals I believe the best way to learn backend engineering is by understanding how real systems are designed, operated, and scaled in production.