Open to backend, distributed-systems & platform engineering roles

Software Engineer · Backend & Distributed Systems

Shivank Bhardwaj

Systems that hold up.

I build the backend systems other teams depend on — distributed, event-driven, and built to stay up under load. Currently at Bidgely, working on high-volume billing & EV-telematics pipelines and applied-AI tooling.

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Three ways in

New here? This site is organised around three things — what I've built, how I think, and who I am. Go wherever your question points.

01

Work

The problems I've owned end to end — data migrations, distributed systems, enterprise integrations — written up as case studies with the decisions, tradeoffs, and failures left visible.

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02

Thinking

Short essays on how I approach the craft: when to make a call fast versus treat it like a bet, how to debug by reasoning instead of guessing, and other lessons from real work.

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03

About

The short version of me — four years across aviation, finance, and energy, the stack I work in day to day, and what I’m looking for next.

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Selected work

Case studies, not screenshots

architecture01

Event-Driven Systems for High-Volume Billing & EV Telematics

Built event-driven distributed systems on AWS + Kafka + Cassandra for solar billing, TOU optimization, and EV telematics, and led the Cassandra driver migration off the deprecated Astyanax client.

GoJavaPythonAWS EventBridge
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architecture02

Migrating Aviation Operational Data from Relational DBs to MongoDB

Query performance +20% and downtime −15% migrating legacy relational systems to MongoDB across aviation operational workflows.

JavaSpring BootMongoDBMySQL
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bet03

LLM + RAG Automation for Backend Operations

Built internal AI-assisted tools (Python + LLM APIs, LangChain, RAG) for log analysis, anomaly detection, validation, and incident summarization — cutting manual operational toil across backend systems.

PythonLLM APIsLangChainEmbeddings
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Writing

From the archive

Debugging as Detective Work: Stop Guessing, Start Reasoning

Most debugging wastes time by skipping the hypothesis step. Here's the frame that fixed that for me.

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Make the Reversible Decision Fast. Treat the Irreversible One Like a Bet.

The most useful frame I've found for avoiding both analysis paralysis and expensive mistakes.

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Let's build systems that hold up.

Open to backend, distributed-systems & platform roles. Message me directly — by email or on LinkedIn, whichever you prefer.

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