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I build systems that stay boring under pressure.

Aarav Shah · distributed platforms, developer tooling and teams that ship without drama.
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infraevents

Event Relay

Cut incident recovery from 38 to 9 minutes across three regions.

GoNATSPrometheus
toolingapi

Schema Lens

Made breaking API changes visible before merge for 42 services.

TypeScriptPostgres
storage

Cold Path

Reduced storage spend by 31% without changing retention.

RustS3Parquet

Depth, honestly rated

Rated against the systems I have actually run in production, not against the field.
92%Distributed systems
Nine years, four platforms
84%Go
Three services running unattended
88%Observability
Traces, SLOs and on-call design
79%Postgres
Schema design and migrations under load
90%Mentoring
Eight engineers, two staff promotions

Impact / 04

Architecture with an exit plan

RFCs, load tests and migration paths are part of the deliverable.

Teams scale too

Mentored eight engineers and rebuilt on-call around ownership.

The commit history

  1. 2023—Now

    Staff Engineer · Northstar

    Led platform reliability and internal developer experience.

  2. 2020—2023

    Senior Engineer · Loomline

    Split a monolith while weekly releases continued.

  3. 2017—2020

    Backend Engineer · Fieldnote

    Built the first event pipeline and observability stack.

Speaker

AWS Solutions Architect

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CKA

Linux Foundation · 2025

Speaker

SystemsConf · 2024

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