Professional Overview
Senior Backend Engineer & SaaS Architecture Consultant
Mahesh Kadambala · Remote Worldwide · Available for Freelance & Consulting
Enterprise Production Experience
Senior Backend & Platform Engineer · Enterprise Equipment Lifecycle SaaS
2023 — Present
Core platform backend engineer on a multi-tenant enterprise SaaS platform managing thousands of industrial assets, warranty claims, and field-service operations for enterprise clients.
- Architected schema-per-tenant isolation and request-scoped datasource routing, guaranteeing zero cross-tenant leakage across thousands of operations.
- Engineered an enterprise search engine with a custom AST query parser compiled to tenant-scoped Elasticsearch, sustaining <150ms p95 latencies across 1,000,000+ asset records.
- Implemented a declarative state-machine workflow engine that turned custom tenant approval flows into configuration instead of new code deployments.
- Integrated Apache Kafka with the Transactional Outbox pattern and idempotent consumers, eliminating dual-write bugs and ensuring zero lost events during network partitions.
- Conducted deep PostgreSQL query profiling (EXPLAIN ANALYZE), composite index restructuring, and connection pool right-sizing to reduce high-traffic endpoint latencies by ~60%.
- Built production JWT authentication with cryptographic refresh-token rotation and role-based access control (RBAC).
Core Competencies & Capabilities
Backend & Core Engineering
Java 17+ · Spring Boot · Spring Data JPA · Spring Security · Python · FastAPI · RESTful APIs · GraphQL
Architecture & Distributed Systems
Microservices · Multi-Tenancy (Schema & Row) · Event-Driven Architecture · Transactional Outbox Pattern · Idempotent Consumers · Domain-Driven Design (DDD) · CQRS
Data & Caching Infrastructure
PostgreSQL (Query Tuning & EXPLAIN) · Redis (Facet Caching & Token Stores) · Elasticsearch (AST-Compiled Search) · MySQL · pgvector
Distributed Messaging & Streaming
Apache Kafka · AWS SQS · RabbitMQ · Dead Letter Queues (DLQ) · Schema Registry
AI Integration & Workflows
LLM API Orchestration (OpenAI / Claude) · Tenant-Scoped RAG · Knowledge Graphs & Vector Search · Structured Outputs & Guardrails · Deterministic AI Agents
Cloud, Containers & DevOps
AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, SQS) · Docker & Docker Compose · Kubernetes · GitHub Actions (CI/CD) · Testcontainers (Real infra tests)
Frontend & Full-Stack Interfaces
React · Next.js (App Router) · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS