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Pavan Illa

@pavanilla

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Senior backend engineer focused on scalable cloud-native SaaS platforms.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles building scalable, cloud-native backend platforms where I can improve reliability, observability, and developer efficiency while working on distributed systems, microservices, and AI integrations.

I am a Senior Backend Engineer with 4+ years building and maintaining distributed, cloud-native SaaS platforms using Go, Python, and Java. I design scalable microservices, optimize system performance, and deliver reliable infrastructure with strong expertise in Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, observability, and CI/CD automation.

My work includes improving latency and throughput by 40%, migrating services to asynchronous architectures to double throughput and reduce P99 by 30%, and creating billing/reconciliation systems that eliminated extensive manual effort. I prioritize developer efficiency, service resilience, and measurable production reliability improvements.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Backend Engineer

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TerryBerry

Nov 2024 - Present (1 year 7 months)

Developed and optimized Go microservices for a health & wellness SaaS with 200K+ users, improving latency and throughput by 40% and reducing recurring production incidents by 25% through observability and reliability work.

Go Java AWS Kubernetes MySQL Docker Terraform Redis Observability

Backend Engineer

Radius Agent

Mar 2022 - Oct 2024 (2 years 7 months)

Migrated core services to FastAPI and Go with Kafka event streaming to double throughput and cut P99 latency by 30%, and built a multi-tenant billing/subscription module that eliminated 240+ manual hours per month.

Python Go fastAPI Kafka MySQL MongoDB AWS Microservices