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Kanishka Naik

Software Engineer & Open-Source Maintainer

JS/TS · Elixir · Go · Solidity

Exploring payments, ledgers, and distributed systems

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About

I'm a Full Stack Engineer with 5+ years of experience building production-grade systems designed to scale. My work sits at the intersection of backend performance, distributed architecture, and cloud-native infrastructure — with a growing focus on payments, financial ledgers, and blockchain systems.

I care deeply about writing software that is not only functional, but maintainable, observable, and resilient under pressure. Beyond engineering, I contribute to open-source, write about distributed systems and infrastructure on my blog, and spend my nights thinking about the universe.

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What I Work With

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Focus Areas

  • Payments & Ledgers — Designing reliable, audit-ready financial systems with strong consistency guarantees
  • Distributed Systems — Architecting services that scale horizontally and degrade gracefully under load
  • Open Source — Maintaining libraries and tooling that improve developer experience across the ecosystem
  • Blockchain & Web3 — Smart contract development in Solidity; exploring decentralised financial primitives
  • Technical Writing — Breaking down complex systems thinking into accessible, practical content
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Engineering Principles

  • Design for scale from the start — retrofitting is expensive
  • Build systems that fail gracefully, not catastrophically
  • Observability is not optional in production
  • Good architecture enables fast teams, not just fast software
  • Write code for the engineer who maintains it next
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Writing & Open Source

I write about distributed systems, backend architecture, and engineering trade-offs. If you find something useful, a ⭐ on the repo goes a long way.

Always building. Always learning. Always scaling.

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