I'm Kunal Kumar — a Software Engineer based in India, focused on backend systems and distributed infrastructure. I spend most of my time writing Go, designing APIs, and thinking about how systems fail at scale.

I've contributed to the Node.js runtime and built production systems spanning real-time data pipelines, gRPC services, and Kubernetes-native tooling. I care deeply about correctness, observability, and writing backend code that's boring in the best possible way.

When I'm not deep in a terminal, I'm reading about consensus algorithms, contributing to open source, or writing about the internals of systems like etcd, the Linux kernel, and the Go runtime.