Only read this if you really want to know who I actually am and what my days look like :)

Short version, if you want to skip. Builder and gamer at heart, and an unfiltered guy who shares everything when I talk. I learn something every day and share it, and I take input from anyone, random strangers and specialists alike, if it makes me better at the craft. I do the same in return, if I see or read something, I share my opinion or raise an issue, and expect the same from anyone. I love talking with anyone, tech or non tech, who enjoys a healthy conversation, and I am completely cool with a clash of opinions, because that is how both of us get better

By title, a backend software engineer who started doing LLM integration and AI workflows. Quietly, somewhere along the way, I turned into an end to end software engineer. Frontend, cloud, DevOps and deploys, QA and testing, planning, architecture, implementation, manage and maintain all of it

A normal day looks like
→ Python, FastAPI, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, AWS
→ Claude Code, tmux, Ubuntu, Git, and a lot of .md files
→ LLM integration, prompting, and watching logs
→ checking news.ycombinator.com for what changed overnight
→ drafting a LinkedIn post in my head and usually not posting it, because in the background I am already explaining it like a YouTube video, so it stays with me anyway :/

How I build, correct first, then fast, then maintainable. I build for the failure cases and retries, not just the happy path, because that is what breaks systems at scale

Along the way
→ Global Fintech Festival 2025 recognition for the DA and Securitization project, integrated with Finternet
→ LeetCode 1,563 rating, top 30%, 400+ problems, 11 badges
→ Coding Ninjas Master badge, top 4%

Currently
→ learning from github.com/rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch
→ posting on x.com/withrvr and linkedin.com/in/withrvr/
→ reading books and articles on scaling servers for high throughput and low latency

Side projects in focus
→ TypeRush, stable at v0.7.0, major update coming after a while
→ Prompt Navigator, browser extension in beta, proper release soon
→ Currently building a ticket categorizer using System 1 decision models, locally hosted
→ A gamified, map heavy mobile app for runners, deep in the planning and architecture phase

Next to learn properly, Kubernetes and Kafka, production grade

Thanks for actually reading about who I really am... x_D

Always glad to trade notes with engineers building serious backend or AI native systems.

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