Systems & Backend Engineer — building high-performance, fault-tolerant services and the infrastructure that keeps them fast under load.
My center of gravity is the backend: designing scalable microservices, optimizing for latency and throughput, and reasoning about systems from the language runtime down to the network. I also build and ship LLM-powered features end to end.
Languages: C/C++ · Python · TypeScript/JavaScript · SQL Backend & Frameworks: Node.js · FastAPI · Next.js · React Infrastructure & Data: Docker · Kubernetes · PostgreSQL · Redis · AWS · Git
- Backend performance engineering — latency reduction, throughput tuning, profiling, concurrency, and efficient resource/memory management for services under high load.
- Distributed systems & microservices — designing decoupled, horizontally scalable architectures with resilient inter-service communication.
- API design — production-grade REST and GraphQL APIs with an eye on contracts, versioning, and consumer ergonomics.
- AI / LLM integration — architecting and shipping production LLM features, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines built on LangChain and vector databases.
Low-level systems engineering, applied cryptography, and backend optimization — concurrency models, lock-free data structures, caching strategies, and shaving latency off critical paths.
- B.Tech, Civil Engineering (2020–24) — National Institute of Technology, Silchar
- M.Tech, Computer Science (2025–26) — IIIT Hyderabad (graduate coursework completed)
Relevant coursework: Advanced Operating Systems · Data Structures & Algorithms for Problem Solving · Software Engineering · Software System Development · System & Network Security · Statistical Methods in AI
- Portfolio — chaitanyaprabhu1.github.io
- LinkedIn — Chaitanya Prabhu
- Email — chaitanyasprabhu@gmail.com
Open to systems and backend engineering roles. Feel free to reach out.