Backend software engineer from Lucknow, studying B.Tech in Information Technology at IIIT Una. I build production backend systems, learn unfamiliar codebases quickly, and care about correctness under load: transactions, audit trails and tests that block bad merges.
- Backend Lead on the IIIT Una development team, running a platform used by 1,500 students
- Open source contributor to Apache APISIX and Keploy
- Head of Engineering at the IIIT Una ACM Student Chapter
- Open to collaborating on backend and open-source projects. Reach me at work.deep.in@gmail.com
| Project | What it does | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| PayAgent AI-native commerce protocol |
Agentic purchase workflow where a human approves every payment before it executes. Go/Gin backend with an append-only PostgreSQL audit trail and Redis Pub/Sub event streaming, so each agent action and payment step is traceable. | Go, Python, LangGraph, PostgreSQL, Redis, React |
| ResidentIQ Hostel seat allocation |
Live at IIIT Una for 1,500 students, with allocation windows, roommate invites, warden overrides and audit logs. PostgreSQL row-level locking inside transactions prevents double-booking; stress-tested to 500K+ simultaneous requests. | Node.js, PostgreSQL, BullMQ, Redis, Docker, React |
| E-Broker AI-powered e-waste marketplace |
Identifies e-waste components from photos, flags toxic parts, generates EPR passports and matches sellers with certified recyclers. Trained a YOLO26m detector (0.802 mAP50) and wired it to LLM tool-calling agents. | Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, YOLO26, Amazon Bedrock Agents |
| Apache APISIX Contributor, Oct 2025 to Apr 2026 |
Cloud-native API gateway used in production worldwide. Shipped the Search Route feature and a CI lint workflow that checks every contributor PR, and wrote Playwright E2E coverage for SSL, Secrets, Consumer Groups and Stream Routes, enforced as a mandatory CI gate. |
| Keploy Software Engineering Intern, Feb to Apr 2026 |
Built a 220-test Playwright E2E suite from scratch and made it a required GitHub Actions check that blocks merges when it fails. |
More at deepshekhar.site/opensource.
| Languages | + SQL |
| Backend and APIs | + Go/Gin, REST, gRPC, WebSockets |
| Databases and Messaging | + BullMQ, Redis Pub/Sub |
| Cloud and DevOps | + CI/CD |
| Testing | Playwright, E2E, integration and unit testing, CI-enforced test gates |
| Frontend | |
| AI-assisted development | Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, LLM APIs, LangGraph, LangChain. AI output is always checked with tests and code review. |
- IIIT Una Development Team (Jul 2025 to present): Backend Lead. Set up code review, design reviews and CI quality gates, and built internal tooling used daily by college operations staff.
- ACM Student Chapter, IIIT Una (Mar 2026 to present): Head of Engineering. Led Hacktoberfest 2026, onboarded 100+ students into open source and mentored 50+ peers.
- LeetCode Knight with a 1887 rating.
- Writing: a design deep-dive on ResidentIQ's concurrency model and deployment trade-offs, on Medium.