Kanishk Shrivastava

I enjoy building systems that actually hold up in the real world. Advocate of Functional Programming. Over the last 4+ years, I’ve worked across backend, AI, and data-heavy systems—designing APIs, building distributed services, and working on pipelines that process hundreds of millions of records a day. I tend to gravitate toward problems where scale and performance really matter, and where clean design makes a visible difference. I’ve taken systems from idea to production, contributed to architecture decisions, and mentored engineers along the way. That said, I still spend most of my time doing what I enjoy the most—writing code and solving problems. I don’t think good engineers are defined by their stack. What matters more is how you approach systems—understanding trade-offs, picking the right tools for the job, and adapting as the problem evolves. The technologies change; the thinking shouldn’t. I care about building things that are simple, reliable, and scale without constant intervention. If you’re working on something challenging and meaningful, I’d love to connect.