~/sunil-pareek — zsh
$ whoami

Sunil Pareek
Backend & infrastructure engineer

I build systems that don't fall over at 3am — APIs, data pipelines, and the boring-but-critical plumbing behind products people actually rely on.

About

$ cat about.md

I'm a backend-leaning engineer who's spent the last seven years building services that scale from "just me testing it" to "handling real traffic without paging anyone."

Most of my work lives in distributed systems, data pipelines, and developer tooling — the kind of infrastructure nobody notices until it breaks. I like it that way.

Outside of work: mechanical keyboards, long-distance running, and slowly working through every RFC I can find.

location = "Mumbai, IN"
experience = "7 years"
focus = ["backend", "infra", "data"]
currently = "open to new roles"
resume ./resume.pdf

Skills

$ cat skills.json

Languages

  • Go
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • SQL

Infrastructure

  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • AWS
  • Docker

Data & storage

  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Kafka
  • ClickHouse

Projects

$ ls ~/projects

Pipeworks

Open-source data pipeline orchestrator built for teams that outgrew cron jobs but don't need a full Airflow deployment.

GoPostgreSQLgRPC
github →

Ledgerline

Event-sourced ledger service handling millions of transactions/day for a fintech client, with full audit replay.

KafkaKotlinAWS
case study →

termkit

A small library for building polished terminal UIs in Go, used internally at three different startups now.

GoCLI
github →

Writing

$ ls ~/blog --sort=date

Why we moved our queue off Kafka (and don't regret it)

Aug 2026

Notes on debugging a memory leak that only showed up in prod

Jun 2026

A pragmatic guide to database migrations at scale

Mar 2026

What seven years of on-call taught me about system design

Jan 2026

Contact

$ ./contact --help
contact.sh
status  available for new opportunities