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Saravana Thiyagarajan

Senior Backend Engineer | Go | Distributed Systems | Payments | Event-Driven Architecture | Cloud Architecture

Bengaluru

5+ years of work experience

Aura Gold™
Dec 20259 mosPresent

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Building scalable backend systems at Aura Gold with a focus on performance, reliability, and real-world system design. Passionate about going deep into database internals, distributed systems, and engineering trade-offs at scale.
GoQueue
Aug 20258 mosMar 2026

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Creator of GoQueue, a flexible job queue library in Go with 225+ GitHub stars, designed to scale from local development to production and cloud workloads. • Designed a pluggable queue architecture supporting in-memory, Redis, and AWS SQS backends • Implemented production-grade features including retries, dead-letter queues (DLQ), middleware and graceful worker shutdown. • Focused on clean APIs, reliability, and real-world background processing semantics. Repo Link: https://github.com/saravanasai/goqueue
Upland Software
Nov 20232 yrs 2 mosDec 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

My role involved driving significant advancements in AI integration and platform scalability. • Built a reusable App Switcher component for consistent navigation across Upland products. • Developed a RAG-based chatbot assistant, enriching user engagement through seamless API integration. • Optimized SQL query processing, leveraging WebSockets for enhanced performance in containerized environments.
Nextbrain
Nov 20221 yr 1 moNov 2023

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led the development of a high-performance last-mile delivery application, managing over 40,000+ daily requests. • Created reusable tools and custom modules for various industries, enhancing operational efficiency. • Integrated Amazon SQS in an IoT-based cold storage warehouse, improving report processing capabilities. • Achieved a significant reduction in API response time from 3 seconds to 300 ms through Redis caching and CDN implementation.
Exciteon
Jun 20211 yr 3 mosAug 2022

Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India

• Designed and implemented a scalable authentication system with RBAC for a logistics management platform, enhancing security and user experience. • Contributed to the development of a live tracking feature, improving operational transparency and customer satisfaction. • Acted as an individual contributor on a monthly EMI tracker project, boosting operational efficiency by 70%. • Developed a reusable rewards and coupons module for a leading UK fintech client, reducing marketing costs and increasing customer engagement.

Saravana’s AI Stack

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Education

Srimad Andavan Arts & Science College, Thiruvanaikoil, Tiruchirappalli - 620 005.

Bachelor of Computer Applications - BCA, Computer Science

Srimad Andavan Arts & Science College, Thiruvanaikoil, Tiruchirappalli - 620 005.

20183 yrs2021

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Headline

Senior Backend Engineer | Go | Distributed Systems | Payments | Event-Driven Architecture | Cloud Architecture

About

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Aura Gold, I focus on building scalable backend systems with an emphasis on performance, reliability, and real-world system design. My work revolves around database internals, distributed systems, and making thoughtful engineering trade-offs to deliver robust solutions. With a Bachelor of Computer Applications in Computer Science, my career encompasses impactful contributions across fintech, e-commerce, and SaaS platforms. My core competencies include distributed systems, FastAPI, and Python , optimize APIs, and enhance event reliability in complex architectures. Driven by a commitment to clarity and maintainability, I aim to create systems that thrive under scale and stress.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Senior Backend Engineer at Aura Gold™, Dec 2025 - Present · 9 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Building scalable backend systems at Aura Gold with a focus on performance, reliability, and real-world system design. Passionate about going deep into database internals, distributed systems, and engineering trade-offs at scale.

Creator & Maintainer – GoQueue at GoQueue, Aug 2025 - Mar 2026 · 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Creator of GoQueue, a flexible job queue library in Go with 225+ GitHub stars, designed to scale from local development to production and cloud workloads. • Designed a pluggable queue architecture supporting in-memory, Redis, and AWS SQS backends • Implemented production-grade features including retries, dead-letter queues (DLQ), middleware and graceful worker shutdown. • Focused on clean APIs, reliability, and real-world background processing semantics. Repo Link: https://github.com/saravanasai/goqueue

Software Development Engineer - 1 at Upland Software, Nov 2023 - Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, My role involved driving significant advancements in AI integration and platform scalability. • Built a reusable App Switcher component for consistent navigation across Upland products. • Developed a RAG-based chatbot assistant, enriching user engagement through seamless API integration. • Optimized SQL query processing, leveraging WebSockets for enhanced performance in containerized environments.

Software Engineer at Nextbrain, Nov 2022 - Nov 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Led the development of a high-performance last-mile delivery application, managing over 40,000+ daily requests. • Created reusable tools and custom modules for various industries, enhancing operational efficiency. • Integrated Amazon SQS in an IoT-based cold storage warehouse, improving report processing capabilities. • Achieved a significant reduction in API response time from 3 seconds to 300 ms through Redis caching and CDN implementation.

PHP Developer at Exciteon, Jun 2021 - Aug 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India, • Designed and implemented a scalable authentication system with RBAC for a logistics management platform, enhancing security and user experience. • Contributed to the development of a live tracking feature, improving operational transparency and customer satisfaction. • Acted as an individual contributor on a monthly EMI tracker project, boosting operational efficiency by 70%. • Developed a reusable rewards and coupons module for a leading UK fintech client, reducing marketing costs and increasing customer engagement.

Education

Bachelor of Computer Applications - BCA, Computer Science, Srimad Andavan Arts & Science College, Thiruvanaikoil, Tiruchirappalli - 620 005.