Shreyas
Rajiv.
I build backend systems and explore the infrastructure that connects them.
Current interests
Backend. Distributed systems. Cloud networking.
Interested in how reliable systems work under the hood—from consensus and storage to Kubernetes networking and network security.
Toolbox
Skills & technologies.
The tools I use to build, debug, and understand software systems.
Backend.
Infrastructure.
Networking.
Selected work
Projects I've built.
A mix of distributed systems, developer tools, and applied ML.
GoKV — Distributed Key-Value Store
A distributed in-memory key-value store built in Go with Raft consensus, leader election, fault-tolerant replication, dynamic cluster membership, write-ahead logging, and snapshot recovery.
CodeSphere
A browser-based collaborative coding environment with real-time editing, team chat, GitHub integration, and multi-language code execution.
Real-Time Sign Language Recognition
A CNN-Transformer model with MediaPipe hand tracking for WLASL gesture recognition, paired with a Flask and JavaScript quiz experience. Reported model accuracy: 96.8%.
Network Digital Twin
An iOS app concept for monitoring private wireless networks and surfacing predictive insights about maintenance and potential downtime.
AI Recruitment Platform
An end-to-end recruitment workflow for resume screening, chatbot interviews, candidate management, and automated email communication.
Shortify
A URL shortener concept focused on concurrency-safe identifier generation, caching, structured logging, and rate limiting for high-traffic workloads.
Where I've worked
Experience.
Experience
Learning by
building things.
Engineering across enterprise software, networking, and product development.
Ecolab
Engineer
Nokia
Project Intern · Network Digital Twin
Archonet
Software Engineering Intern
Community & infrastructure
Open source.
Contributing to the tools that make cloud-native networking work.
Cilium · Kubernetes networking
Contributing to production-grade networking infrastructure.
Working in the Cilium ecosystem, with contributions around Hubble L7 event filtering and Gateway API ExternalAuth security behavior.
Explore contributions ↗Heat-Activated Adhesive Polymeric Material for Tactile Braille Script Generation on Variable Surfaces
Patent-related work in accessible tactile communication.
Notes from the journey
Writing.
Distributed systems
What Building My First Distributed System Taught Me
Lessons from building GoKV, working through consensus, failure handling, and persistence.
Read article ↗API design
Understanding REST, GraphQL, and gRPC
How different communication patterns fit different application and system design needs.
Read article ↗