BENGALURU, INDIA
Aalishan
Backend engineer.
I build the parts you don't see: databases that keep tenants apart, AI pipelines that don't waste tokens, and the infrastructure that survives launch day.
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Case Studies
Some of my best work.
FULL bragDocBACKEND & DATA15,000+ users, no redesignLed Passiton's team and designed a system that reached 15,000+ usersAt Third Eye Creative I led a 3-person team building Passiton, a freecycling marketplace app. I designed its entire database schema and system around the features likely to come, and owned the backend, DevOps, code review and the UX flow. Passiton launched in March 2026 and grew to 15,000+ users without any change to that original design.Read more: AI SYSTEMSOne of 10 picked at FORK. BUILD. MERGE.Released adk-leak-arena, a red-team console for Google ADK agent memoryadk-leak-arena attacks two Google ADK agents side by side, one on an unprotected pgvector memory and one on adk-memshield, across six scenarios and 54 queries, and shows what each one returns. On its synthetic benchmark, the unprotected side returned a forbidden row on 39 of 40 cross-boundary attack queries and adk-memshield on 0, and every number is published with its command and raw output. Building it surfaced a fail-open path in ADK's memory preloading, which I took upstream as a pull request. It was one of 10 projects picked at FORK. BUILD. MERGE., hosted by GDG Cloud Bengaluru at Google Ananta.Read more: BACKEND & DATADatabase size −60%Resolved a 1-hour GHAStep outage with a zero-downtime database cleanupAt Third Eye Creative I traced a one-hour outage in GHAStep to base64 images stored inside database rows. A Python script moved the images to object storage without downtime, the database shrank by 60%, and the admin panel now uploads image URLs instead of base64 to prevent a repeat.Read more:
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