Backends that stay up. AI that ships.
Senior backend engineer: four years of distributed systems, AI integration and multi-cloud infrastructure at SaxeCap, DelightChat and Deloitte.

- years shipping
- 4+
- calls/yr on my agents
- 10M
- queries/mo on AI support tools
- 65k+
- uptime through outages
- ~100%
At a glance
Project & advisory work
Backend architecture, AI integration (RAG, agents), cloud-cost optimisation, reliability & monitoring. Scoped engagements with clear outcomes.
Start a conversationSenior backend roles
Open to senior IC roles on distributed-systems or AI-infrastructure teams. Remote-first and async-friendly, four years across startup and enterprise.
See experience2018-2022
Not limited to one stack
Four years across startups and enterprise taught me the tool matters less than the problem underneath it. I've picked up new languages, frameworks and clouds mid-project when the job called for it, and been productive fast enough that it never became the bottleneck.
Projects

Masterji
An AI coach with no patience for excuses: one task each morning, checked by evening.

Munshiji
A cashflow book for Indian small businesses: the daily cash book, every party's udhaar and GST bills kept in one set of books, so cash, balances and bills can never disagree. Hindi and English.

My Car Diary
A pocket fuel & service diary: mileage, cost per km and service reminders, plus scanning handwritten log pages with vision AI. Synced to your account and shareable with family.

Journal
A private daily diary: date-anchored entries with a mood dial, autosave as you type, and your data always exportable as markdown.

Mayur School, Badu
A bilingual school website for two mediums under one management: admissions, fees, results and announcements per wing, plus a staff-editable CMS. Static site, so hosting costs nothing.
Earlier work
- Maze Pathfinder StudioInteractive maze solver that visualises BFS, DFS, Dijkstra and A* live as they search the grid.
- Hybrid PageRankGraph-ranking engine parallelised on GPU, a 12× speedup over the serial baseline.
- Secure ChatEnd-to-end encrypted chat application with authenticated key exchange over raw sockets.
Experience
- 2026 - now
SaxeCap
SF · remoteSenior Software Engineer: AI workflow agent streamlining post-call processing, 10M calls/yr
- 2024-26
DelightChat
remoteSenior Backend Engineer: scheduling, AI features, payments, storage, monitoring, auth & security
- 2022-24
Deloitte USI
BengaluruSDE: multi-cloud document classification (82%+ success), 100+ TB lossless migration, test automation −99%
- 2018-22
IIT Jodhpur
B.Tech CSE: hybrid PageRank with 12× speedup via parallel processing (CUDA, OpenMP)
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Need a senior backend hand?
Scoped consulting engagements are my main track. Full-time conversations are welcome too.
cmahendra9999@gmail.com