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Sankalp Rai GambhirFullstack & AI Engineer
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7+ Years of Engineering Experience

I Help Growing Teams Ship Production AI — and the Backend Systems Behind It.

From AI agents and RAG pipelines to backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and full-stack products, I take ownership from architecture through production—independently or alongside your existing team. Built right, the first time.

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I Help Growing Teams Ship Production AI — and the Backend Systems Behind It.

7+ Years

of Software Engineering

From MVPs to Millions of Users

Worked with Startups & Enterprises

AI + Backend Systems

End-to-end Expertise

Architecture → Production

From Design to Delivery

Selected Work

Car rental app dashboard showing real-time search and booking availability

Preventing Rental Car Double-Bookings with Serializable Transactions & Geo-Spatial Search

Every double-booking costs a refund, a support ticket, and usually the customer. This handles peak-hour demand without a single conflicting reservation.
Sub-100ms real-time geo searchConcurrency-safe bookings6 microservices based backend

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Resume Diff AI dashboard showing AI-generated resume-to-job-description match scoring

Automating Resume Screening with Reliable Structured Outputs from LLMs

Screening a few hundred resumes eats days of recruiter time and still ends in gut calls. This scores every candidate in seconds, consistently enough to defend to a hiring manager.
schema-constrained responsesserverless architecture< 800ms cold start

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Real-time multiplayer Tic-Tac-Toe game interface with live match state

Eliminating Race Conditions in Real-Time Multiplayer Games with Atomic Redis Lua

Players don't come back to a game that glitches mid-match. This keeps 1,000+ live matches in sync, so nobody loses to a bug instead of an opponent.
Go WebSockets + RedisAtomic state validations in LuaSupports 1K+ concurrent games

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Deployment platform dashboard showing live build logs and CloudFront distribution status

Automating Frontend Deployments from Git to a Global CDN with Event-Driven AWS

Hand-rolled deploys burn an engineer's afternoon and break on release day. Push to Git and the site is live worldwide in minutes, with logs showing exactly what shipped.
Containerized Lambda buildsCloudFront delivery + SPA routingSQS orchestration

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Document management RAG chat interface showing semantic search results with source attribution

Scaling AI Q&A Over Documents at Low Cost with Cached Embeddings & Vector Search

The answer is in the documents somewhere — finding it costs hours. Ask in plain English, get a sourced answer in seconds, on infrastructure that costs almost nothing to run.
Semantic retrievalLow-cost infrastructureStreamed AI Responses with SSE

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Engineering Insights

Postgres query plan diagram showing an index scan replacing a full table scan

The Client Thought They'd Outgrown Postgres. They Hadn't.

A client was sure they'd outgrown Postgres and wanted more pods, replicas, and shards. The real problems were one missing index and a connection storm — two-day fixes, not a re-architecture.

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Agent control-flow diagram showing a runaway tool-call loop bounded by circuit breakers

Our AI Agent Made 2,000 Tool Calls to Do Nothing

What an autonomous agent taught me about cost, control flow, and why reliability isn't a model-intelligence problem.

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LLM cost optimization dashboard showing token usage and spend trending down

Our LLM Bill Hit $14K a Month. I Cut It 70% — Without Cutting Quality

How instrumenting LLM spend, fixing prompt bloat, model routing, and safe caching cut a $14K/month AI bill by 70% without hurting quality.

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About Me

I'm a software engineer with 7+ years of full-time industry experience, including engineering roles at Airtel and Axis Bank.

I now work with growing teams as a hands-on Fractional Engineering Lead — plugging into existing engineering teams or owning clearly defined workstreams end-to-end.

My experience spans distributed backend systems, data platforms, cloud infrastructure, full-stack products, and production AI.

Core stack: Go · Node.js · Python · TypeScript · React / Next.js · PostgreSQL · Redis · Kafka · AWS · Kubernetes

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Enterprise Experience

Airtel

One of India's largest telecom companies

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Axis Bank

One of India's largest private-sector banks

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Engineering products and platforms serving millions of users

Ways I Work With Teams

Scoped Build

Own a clearly defined feature or platform end-to-end — from architecture through deployment.

Workstream Ownership

Plug into an existing team and take ownership of a backlog or workstream, embedded like a senior hire.

Technical Spike / MVP

Validate the architecture, de-risk the hard technical decisions, or ship the first production-ready version before scaling the team.

Remote-First

Remote-first and async-friendly, with working-hour overlap across UK, EU, and US time zones.

Production-Ready Patterns

GraphQL Query Optimization

query GetUserPosts($limit: Int!) {
  user {
    id
    posts(limit: $limit) {
      id
      title
      createdAt
    }
  }
}

Key Learning: Implementing DataLoader for N+1 query prevention

Kafka Consumer Groups

const consumer = new Kafka({
  clientId: 'app-consumer',
  brokers: ['kafka:9092']
}).consumer({ groupId: 'payment-group' });

await consumer.subscribe({ topic: 'transactions' });
await consumer.run({ eachMessage: processor });

Key Learning: Parallel processing with automatic rebalancing

Kubernetes Resource Limits

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: api-service
spec:
  containers:
  - name: app
    resources:
      requests:
        memory: "256Mi"
        cpu: "250m"
      limits:
        memory: "512Mi"
        cpu: "500m"

Key Learning: Preventing resource starvation in production clusters

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Skills

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AI Engineering

LLM orchestration · RAG · OpenAI API · Hugging Face · LangChain · LangGraph · LlamaIndex · LangSmith · Langfuse · Knowledge graphs · Model Context Protocol (MCP) · AutoGen · CrewAI · Qdrant · Vector search · Prompt & schema design · SSE streaming · Caching & cost control

Fullstack Development & Database Design

TypeScript · React · Next.js · Node.js · Go · Python · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Redis · Elasticsearch · GraphQL · Kafka · REST APIs

Cloud & DevOps Engineering

AWS · AWS Lambda · Docker · Kubernetes · GitHub Actions · CloudFront · S3 · DynamoDB · Nginx · Terraform

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Have a Difficult Engineering Workstream That Needs Ownership?

Whether you're shipping an AI feature, fixing a backend bottleneck, validating a new architecture, or taking a platform from prototype to production, tell me what you're working on.

About

Sankalp Rai Gambhir

Fullstack & AI engineer helping growing teams ship production AI, backend systems, and full-stack products.

Worked with startups & enterprises

Contact

career.sankalp21@gmail.com

Remote-first

UK / EU / US overlap

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Ways I Work

Scoped Build

A defined feature or platform, delivered from architecture through deployment.

Workstream Ownership

Senior-level ownership inside an existing team and delivery process.

Technical Spike / MVP

Validate the architecture and de-risk hard decisions before scaling.

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