An event-driven pipeline that ingests high-volume device telemetry and fans it out to downstream consumers without coupling them to the producer.
- Python
- Apache Kafka
- Redis
- Kubernetes
Backend Software Engineer
Surya Teja Kommuguri
I build distributed, event-driven backends that stay fast and observable under real load.
Skills
The tools I reach for, grouped by where they fit in a system.
Languages
- Python
- Java
- TypeScript
- SQL
- Bash
Backend & APIs
- FastAPI
- Django
- Spring Boot
- Node.js
- REST
- GraphQL
Distributed Systems
- Apache Kafka
- RabbitMQ
- Redis
- Celery
- Event-driven design
Observability
- OpenTelemetry
- Datadog APM
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- ELK Stack
Cloud & DevOps
- AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, RDS)
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- GitHub Actions
Data
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- Elasticsearch
Featured projects
A few things I've built. Each one solved a concrete problem under real constraints.
A shared tracing and metrics layer across a fleet of platform services, built so on-call engineers can find the failing hop in minutes, not hours.
- OpenTelemetry
- Datadog APM
- Grafana
- Python
A high-uptime prescription and clinical-note service for an EHR platform, with a REST layer tuned for fast mobile clients and strict data-access controls.
- Django
- PostgreSQL
- FHIR R4
- REST
About
I'm a backend engineer who likes the unglamorous parts of software: the queues, the indexes, the traces that tell you what actually happened at 3am. Most of my work sits behind the UI, where correctness and latency are the whole job.
I've spent the last few years on distributed, event-driven systems in healthcare and platform domains — designing services that stay fast under load and stay debuggable when they don't. I care about clear interfaces, honest observability, and code the next person can change without fear.
I'm currently open to backend and platform roles where the problems are real and the bar for engineering is high.
Get in touch
Have a role or a problem worth solving? Send a note, or email me directly.