Staff / Senior Software Engineer
📍 Alberta, Canada · 🌍 Remote-friendly
🔧 Go · Kubernetes · Cloud Platforms · Infrastructure Engineering · AI Systems
I build scalable infrastructure platforms and intelligent backend systems that help engineering teams move faster without sacrificing reliability or security.
With 8+ years of experience, I’ve:
- 🚀 3× developer productivity through platform abstractions
- 💸 Saved $60K+ per month by redesigning large-scale data pipelines
- 🧠 Built AI-powered systems indexing 15M+ social media artifacts
- 🏗 Led org-wide migrations (PHP → Go, manual infra → self-serve platforms)
- Platform Engineering
- Distributed Systems
- Cloud & Kubernetes
- Developer Experience
- AI / Embeddings Pipelines
I enjoy working at the intersection of infrastructure, product, and developer experience, especially where good abstractions unlock velocity across engineering teams.
- Designed self-serve infrastructure platforms using Go, Kafka, Terraform, and Crossplane
- Enabled teams to provision AWS resources securely with least-privilege by default
- Standardized observability (metrics, alerts, SLOs) across dozens of services
- Built large-scale scraping and embeddings pipelines (15M+ Instagram posts)
- Designed vector search engines with sub-200ms latency at scale
- Powered influencer discovery systems used by global consumer brands
- Led PHP → Go migrations across multiple teams
- Established service templates, architectural patterns, and tooling
- Mentored engineers leading to faster reviews, higher code quality, and fewer production issues
| Languages | Go · Rust · Python · TypeScript / JavaScript |
| Cloud & Infra | Kubernetes · Docker · AWS · GCP · Terraform · Crossplane · Pulumi |
| Data & Messaging | Postgres · MongoDB · Redis · DynamoDB · Elasticsearch · Kafka · SQS · Kinesis |
| Networking & APIs | HTTP · gRPC · TCP/IP · DNS · Traefik |
| Tooling & Observability | GitHub Actions · Helm · Prometheus · OpenTelemetry · Datadog |
- 🦀 Rust for systems-level reliability and performance
- 🧠 LLM and embeddings pipelines in real-world production systems
- ☸️ Kubernetes internals (scheduling, controllers, admission)
- 🏗 Platform APIs and internal developer platforms (IDPs)
I prefer learning by building — most of my side projects start as experiments around these topics.
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manikeswaramchaitanya;
“I believe great infrastructure is invisible — until it isn’t.”