Kanaad Deshpande

About

Built and operated a production warehouse metadata collection platform at Sigma Computing, integrating Go/gRPC services with a TypeScript backend and MySQL, with strong emphasis on idempotency, retries, bounded-concurrency job queues, and Datadog-based observability. Also created Kurral (kurral.com), an AI agent runtime security and observability/governance SDK/proxy concept, iterating via pilot-customer feedback and market research; targeting founding engineer roles with $180–200k base and ~2–5% equity.

Key Strengths

• Owned end-to-end production distributed ingestion system (Go + TypeScript + MySQL)
• Designed idempotent pipelines with safe retries and upsert-based persistence
• Built extensible connector abstraction to add new warehouse integrations without core changes
• Production operations focus: queue depth/latency/retry-rate monitoring and tuning via bounded concurrency
• Implemented rate limiting and backoff to handle throttling/timeouts from external systems
• Strong observability practices (structured logging, metrics, Datadog dashboards)
• Experience building developer-facing SDK/proxy with versioning, docs, and auth integration

Reference Highlights

• Pushes clean, scalable code
• Strong architectural judgment
• Understands system interactions well
• Ships maintainable, high-quality code
• Thorough documentation
• Strong API mapping and schema versioning discipline
• End-to-end ownership of backend systems
• Effective production debugging and root-cause analysis
• Proactive about observability (structured logging)
• Handles load/latency issues effectively
• Takes ambiguous zero-to-one projects through rollout
• Takes complete responsibility and drives execution
• Thoughtful about corner cases
• Collaborative architectural discussions with the team
• Designs robust retry/idempotency mechanisms
• Maintains data integrity (prevents double counting/corruption)
• Built effective agent-like orchestration for real-world complexity

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