Headline

Senior Software Engineer | Backend & Distributed Systems | System Design, Microservices, Kubernetes, Python

About

I'm a Senior Software Engineer who builds backend and distributed systems that hold up in production: scalable APIs, microservices, and the control planes behind them. Most of my work is backend and platform engineering, with a focus on system design, Kubernetes, and reliability. A few concrete results: I cut storage-cluster provisioning from 3-4 hours to about 40 minutes, brought cluster spin-up down from days to roughly an hour, and improved incident response time by 25-35% with better observability. I like clean architecture and services you can actually debug when something breaks at 2am. I've also mentored 6+ engineers on backend design and debugging. Tech I use: Python, TypeScript, Node.js, Flask, NestJS, React, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, Linux. I'm interviewing for senior backend and distributed systems roles in India (on-site/hybrid). Reach me at aravind.ilankara@gmail.com.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

antigravity

claude code

codex

cursor

github copilot

hermes agent

Work experience

Senior Software Engineer at Acceleron Labs Pvt. Ltd, Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos, • Cut cluster provisioning time from 3-4 hours to ~40 minutes by building a centralized management platform for distributed storage, eliminating 30-40% of deployment failures • Reduced incident detection and response time by 25-35% by designing observability pipelines for latency, throughput, and node health across distributed services • Improved delivery predictability and reduced repeat production failures by leading root-cause analysis and mentoring 6+ engineers on backend debugging and system design

Software Engineer at Acceleron Labs Pvt. Ltd, Feb 2024 - Jan 2025 · 1 yr, • Cut cluster bring-up from days to ~1 hour by owning a distributed Kubernetes provisioning backend with health reconciliation and eventual consistency • Raised release velocity ~30% by leading cross-team API design across storage, networking, and control-plane services with idempotent, versioned APIs • Improved reliability and prevented configuration drift by architecting a fault-tolerant, highly available control plane (reconciler patterns) with production observability and SLO tracking for edge and air-gapped deployments

Co-Founder & Tech Lead at Pentadots, Sep 2023 - Jan 2024 · 5 mos, India, • Delivered SaaS and e-commerce platforms on tight timelines by leading technical strategy across three product teams (~30 engineers) • Improved on-time delivery ~40% by standardizing CI/CD pipelines and containerized deployments, cutting post-launch rework • Enabled fast, stable iteration by designing system architectures, API contracts, and deployment runbooks as technical lead

Club Secretary at FOSS Cell NITC, Aug 2021 - May 2022 · 10 mos, National Institute of Technology, Calicut, • Grew campus open-source engagement 40%+ by running Linux workshops, Hacktoberfest, and the Code.Init() hackathon • Got students shipping their first open-source contributions by organizing hands-on sessions and walking them through the workflow • Led the FOSS Cell as secretary, coordinating volunteers and speakers across the year

Web Developer at FOSS Cell NITC, Feb 2020 - Mar 2020 · 2 mos, National Institute of Technology Calicut, • Built and shipped the FOSSMeet website on Node.js and Express, giving the event one place for schedules and registration • Handled both backend and frontend to get the site live on a two-month timeline

System Administrator at SSL Lab NITC, Aug 2018 - May 2022 · 3 yrs 10 mos, National Institute of Technology Calicut, • Kept exam and student-registration systems online through peak campus usage by administering Linux servers and setting up automated backups • Cut repetitive account and database work by writing shell scripts to automate user provisioning and record updates • Ran a fleet of virtual machines with Cluster SSH and Xen Orchestra, which made pushing changes and recovering failed nodes faster

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science Engineering, NIT calicut

High School, Computer Science, kendriya vidyalaya

Public links

github: https://github.com/AravindIM

aravindim.com: https://aravindim.com/

leetcode: https://leetcode.com/aravindim