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Ananya Iyer

Backend engineer · distributed systems · Go and TypeScript

Pune, India

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I build reliable backends: payment pipelines, job queues and APIs that stay up during sales. Currently making checkout faster at a commerce platform.

Open-source contributor, occasional speaker, permanent learner.

Skills

languages

  • Go
  • TypeScript
  • SQL

infra

  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Kafka
  • Docker

practices

  • Observability
  • Testing

Projects

queue-lite

A tiny, durable job queue on Postgres. 2.1k stars.

Dashboard showing queue throughput charts

Built for teams that don't want to run another service.

  • Exactly-once processing with advisory locks
  • Retries with backoff and a dead-letter table
  • go
  • postgres
  • open-source
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rate-guard

Sliding-window rate limiting middleware for Node.js.

Redis-backed, 40µs overhead per request, used in production by three companies.

  • typescript
  • redis
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Experience

  1. Aug 2022 – Present

    Senior backend engineer @ Cartwheel

    Pune

    Rebuilt the checkout service; p99 latency down from 900ms to 180ms.

  2. Jul 2019 – Jul 2022

    Software engineer @ Ledgerly

    Payments reconciliation processing 3 million transactions a day.

Education

  1. 2015 – 2019

    B.Tech, Computer Engineering

    College of Engineering, Pune · 8.9 CGPA