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Salil Lakra

Software engineer focused on distributed backend systems, AI-powered applications, and scalable full-stack platforms.

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Selected work

Forge

Distributed workflow orchestration platform.

Quill

Campus operations and assessment on a shared document engine.

Agile Turn Recruitment Suite

Applicant tracking for a real staffing firm — parse, match, hire.

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Architecture flowchart being sketched on a whiteboard

Featured12 min read

Apr 30, 2026

Monoliths vs Microservices: Choosing the Architecture That Actually Ships

A pragmatic framework for deciding between a modular monolith and microservices based on team size, change cadence, and operational maturity.

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Database dashboard and query editor on screen

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Apr 30, 2026

Prisma vs Drizzle: Choosing a Type-Safe ORM for Production

A practical comparison of Prisma and Drizzle across developer speed, query control, migrations, and long-term maintenance.

ORMDatabasesTypeScriptFull Stack

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Product architecture sketches being drawn on a tablet

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Apr 23, 2026

Full-Stack Systems Design For Product Velocity

A practical architecture playbook for shipping product features faster without turning your stack into an operational liability.

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About

Software engineer. Distributed systems and AI apps.

I'm Salil Lakra. B.Tech, Electronics and Communication Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra — Aug 2024 – May 2028.

I work on distributed backend systems, AI-powered applications, and scalable full-stack platforms — Go, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, React, Docker, event-driven architecture, workflow orchestration, RAG, vector search, and asynchronous processing.

3rd Prize, Internal Hackathon — Smart India Hackathon 2025, BIT Mesra. Hardware-based Smart Agriculture for hilly-region cultivation.

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Stack

Technologies I work with.

Languages

TypeScriptJavaScriptGoPythonSQLJavaCC++

Frontend

ReactNext.jsReact NativeTailwind CSSZustandTanStack QueryReact Flow

Backend

Node.jsExpress.jsHonoFastAPIRESTGraphQLJWTOAuthRBACWebSocketsSSE

AI / Search

RAGGeminiPineconepgvectorEmbeddingsSemantic searchOCRReranking

Data / Infra

PostgreSQLMongoDBMySQLRedisBullMQRabbitMQNATS JetStreamDockerGitHub ActionsLinuxNginxVercelCloudflare R2Supabase

Projects

Production systems, not toy apps.

11,000+

E-Summit page views

311

RoboSaga users

Production systems

Selected

Forge

A distributed workflow engine supporting DAG execution, cron scheduling, retries, asynchronous tasks, and durable workflow state.

Full-stack

GoNext.jsPostgreSQLNATS JetStreamDocker

Open case

2026

Quill

A solo-built AI campus platform: upload a syllabus or timetable PDF, then ask it with citations, pull a timetable into campus, turn it into a question paper, and mark student scripts.

Solo full-stack

Next.jsBunHonoPrismaPostgreSQL

Open case

2026 · 28 jobs · 17 candidates

Agile Turn Recruitment Suite

Internal ATS for Agile Turn Technology LLP covering jobs, applicants, pipeline, AI matching, resume parsing, interviews, and transactional email.

28 jobs · 17 candidates

Next.jsPrismaPostgreSQLpgvectorBullMQ

Open case

2025–2026 · 11K+ page views

E-Summit 2026

Official platform for E-Summit 2026 (13–15 February) — dynamic event pages, OAuth, sponsor systems, and real-time features under live traffic.

11K+ page views

Next.jsSupabaseTypeScriptFramer MotionThree.js

Open case

2026 · 311 users

RoboSaga

Competition platform with structured event data and scalable APIs built for robotics competitions.

311 users

Next.jsPostgreSQLDrizzle ORM

Open case

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Experience

Where I've worked.

Full Stack Developer

Betiyan Nidhi Pvt. Ltd. — Ranchi

Feb 2025 — May 2026

Built cross-platform React Native applications supporting customer and field-agent operational workflows.
Designed Node.js/Express backend services with MongoDB for secure financial and transactional workflows.
Improved API performance through query optimization, indexing, and backend architecture improvements.
Implemented JWT authentication, RBAC, and normalized data models for secure application access.

What I Can Help With

From idea to production — I build the whole thing, not just components.

Full-Stack Web Apps

End-to-end web applications with Next.js, React, and Node.js — auth, dashboards, and real-time features.

Next.jsReactTypeScriptTailwind CSS

Mobile Development

Cross-platform mobile apps with React Native for customer and field-agent workflows.

React NativeTypeScript

APIs & Backend Systems

REST and GraphQL APIs, WebSockets, SSE, JWT, OAuth, and RBAC.

Node.jsExpress.jsHonoFastAPI

Database & Infrastructure

Schema design, query optimization, caching layers, and deployment pipelines with Docker and CI/CD.

PostgreSQLMongoDBDockerVercel

Let's build something.

Currently open for new opportunities. Whether you have a question or just want to say hi — I'll get back to you.