Nikhil Raj
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Nikhil Raj

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Backend Engineer · Go & Postgres

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I design boring, reliable systems that scale quietly.

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Years
7
Uptime run
99.99%
GitHub stars
2k★

About

Backend Engineer · Go & Postgres

Seven years building payment, logistics and data platforms. I care about clear APIs, observability and on-call rotations that let people sleep. Currently open to contract work and senior backend roles.

  • Go
  • PostgreSQL
  • Kafka
  • Kubernetes
  • gRPC
  • Terraform
  • Observability

Selected work

Projects

  • pgqueue

    A tiny, durable job queue on top of Postgres SKIP LOCKED.

    GoOSS

  • tracewise

    Zero-config OpenTelemetry for Go services.

    Observability

  • ratelimitd

    Distributed rate limiting sidecar.

    Infra

Experience

Where I’ve worked

  1. 2021 — now

    Staff Engineer · ShipFast Logistics

    Led the move from a monolith to event-driven services handling 3M orders/day.

  2. 2018 — 2021

    Senior Engineer · PayLane

    Built the reconciliation engine and cut settlement errors by 92%.

Contact

Let’s work together.

WhatsAppEmailSave contact
  • +91 98765 43210
  • nikhil@nraj.dev
  • nraj.dev

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