Akshat Katiyar · Senior Backend Engineer
I build the pipesAI productsrun on.
I'm a Senior Backend Engineer with 7+ years building production Python and Go services, REST APIs, and PostgreSQL-backed platforms end to end. Lately I build GenAI products — RAG pipelines, LLM agents, and model routing — alongside DevOps and full-stack delivery. Currently at Commonwealth Bank (CBA India).
Currently: Commonwealth Bank (CBA India)
Latest writing
01How Dragonfly Outruns Redis — A Backend Engineer's TourDragonfly serves millions of QPS on a single box where Redis caps around 100k. I read the source to find out which three decisions — and one fast-path trick — actually do the work.12 min readsystemsarchitectureperformance02Deterministic AI: Let the Model Interpret, Let Code DecideThe reliable way to ship LLM features isn't a better prompt — it's shrinking the model's job until everything around it is plain, testable code.3 min readaillmsystems03Two AI Coding Agents, Not One: How I Actually ShipMost engineers now run Cursor and Claude Code in parallel — here's how I split the work between them, and why code-review discipline matters more than ever.5 min readaitoolsproductivity