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Shailja Maheshwari
Mid-Level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in web/mobile apps and AI-powered products
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Backend engineer who built and evolved the real-time networking/messaging backend for a cross-platform professional networking app (Make Connexions), optimizing for low-latency delivery, privacy, and strong consistency. Experienced scaling Python/FastAPI APIs with async + Redis, and leading safe refactors via versioned endpoints, feature flags, and backward-compatible migrations; strong production auth/RLS expertise including refresh-token rotation edge cases.
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Key Strengths
- Designed and evolved a real-time messaging/networking backend with low latency and high reliability
- Pragmatic architecture tradeoffs for MVPs (Socket.IO vs raw WebSockets; monolith vs microservices)
- Strong focus on data integrity and privacy (strong consistency for user-facing actions)
- Scales Python/FastAPI APIs using async patterns, Redis caching, and idempotent endpoints
- Contract-driven, versioned APIs with OpenAPI documentation to enable frontend integration
- Led incremental backend refactors with stable external APIs, feature flags, backward-compatible migrations, and staged rollouts
- Deep auth/security implementation: JWT best practices, short-lived tokens, refresh rotation, revocation strategies
- Proactively identified and mitigated edge cases (concurrent refresh causing stale/duplicated JWTs)
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