Backend engineer & curious builder

Varun
Panyam.

I like understanding how things work.
Then building them, one layer deeper.

Things I’ve built.

Small experiments. Deeper understanding.

Bengaluru metro ticketing in Go, with atomic bookings, prepaid wallets, role-based access, PostgreSQL, and Redis.

Hands-on distributed messaging work in Go, built to understand Kafka from the inside out.

A little about me

I’m drawn to the parts of software you don’t see: kernels, networks, and the systems underneath everyday products.

Now

Independent work

Building distributed systems, developer tools, and infrastructure experiments with an emphasis on understanding the machinery underneath.

Earlier

Project work

Shipped web products and service-oriented backends across TypeScript, Java, Python, and modern cloud tooling.

Notes on building, learning, and figuring things out.