╭─ shyam@backend ~
╰─❯ cat ./about.yaml
identity:
name: Shyam Sunder
role: Backend Engineer (MTS2)
company: Nielsen Media India
location: Gurugram 🇮🇳
education: MCA — NIT Jamshedpur
mindset:
- async over sync, always
- design for failure, build for scale
- ship → measure → optimize
currently:
- taming distributed pipelines
- deep in event-driven architecture
- reading: DDIA + Linux internals╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
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║ NIELSEN MEDIA INDIA MTS2 · 2024–Now ║
║ ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ║
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║ Owning .NET Core microservices end-to-end. Redesigned event-driven ║
║ pipelines on RabbitMQ + S3 to hit 100% delivery reliability. ║
║ Migrated REST → CQRS/MassTransit, cutting latency 50% and server ║
║ load 70%. Shipped GitLab CI/CD + Helm on AWS EKS — team now ║
║ deploys 40% faster. Built NestJS BFF with gRPC + OpenTelemetry. ║
║ ║
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║ ║
║ QUODROID Junior Dev · May–Jul 2024 ║
║ ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ║
║ ║
║ Built an AI-powered Robot Framework script generator with OpenAI. ║
║ Automated ServiceNow UI flows using OCR-extracted field coordinates. ║
║ ║
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║ ║
║ FLEXCAR INDIA SDE Intern · Jan–May 2024 ║
║ ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ║
║ ║
║ REST endpoints with NestJS + Spring Boot. Legacy RoR → new arch ║
║ migration. First taste of polyglot backend engineering. ║
║ ║
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{
"languages" : ["C#", "Go", "TypeScript", "JavaScript", "Python", "C++"],
"backend" : [".NET Core", "NestJS", "gRPC", "Protobuf", "REST"],
"patterns" : ["CQRS", "MediatR", "MassTransit", "Event-Driven", "Microservices"],
"databases" : ["PostgreSQL", "MySQL", "Redis", "GraphQL"],
"messaging" : ["RabbitMQ"],
"infra" : ["AWS (EKS · S3 · RDS)", "Kubernetes", "Helm", "Docker"],
"observability": ["OpenTelemetry (OTLP)", "Distributed Tracing"],
"ci_cd" : ["GitLab CI/CD", "Shell Scripting"],
"testing" : ["xUnit", "NSubstitute", "Karate", "Cypress", "Robot Framework"]
}
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ $ ls -la ~/repos --sort=impact │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
| Repo | Lang | What it does | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ⚙️ | idempotent-middleware-go | Go |
Production-grade idempotency middleware — kills duplicate request side-effects at the HTTP layer |
| 🎬 | moviesAPI | Node.js |
RESTful movies API with clean layered architecture |
| 🔐 | login_Backend | Node.js |
Auth backend — JWT, bcrypt, session management done right |
| 📖 | quotebook | Node.js |
Quote service with full CRUD + search |
| 😀 | emojipedia | Node.js |
Emoji lookup API with full-text search support |
╭─ shyam@backend ~
╰─❯ echo $PHILOSOPHY
"Design for failure. Build for scale. Optimize with data."
"Every 50% latency cut is a story worth telling."
"The queue is not the problem — the consumer is."
$ nc shyam.dev 443 · [SYN → SYN-ACK → ACK] · Connection established · RTT: 0ms · Status: ONLINE 🟢