Shantanu Kandale

I’m a Backend Engineer and Backend Architect with a proven track record of designing high-throughput, ultra-low-latency distributed systems. I specialize in Go and cloud-native architecture, with deep experience building systems that run across regions and handle real-world production traffic.

At Supergaming, I lead a cross-functional pod of 4 engineers and architected a global GCP backend for three major mobile multiplayer titles. I designed multi-tenant, multi-region APIs (auth, inventories, in-app purchases, leaderboards, hack detection) and built an asynchronous Missions API and progression engines for dual-track battlepasses and skill-based matchmaking.

My standout technical edge is building custom tooling and domain logic: I engineered an in-house DSL and AST interpreter that parses MongoDB-like JSON scripts using the Visitor pattern to dynamically target user offers and power real-time live-ops. I also built telemetry pipelines to ingest massive post-match payloads into BigQuery and Cloud Storage, plus an Admin API and ReactJS frontend for internal live-ops management and transaction validation.

Previously at Streak AI, I architected the Overwatch engine from scratch and reduced overall cloud infrastructure costs by 80% using AWS EC2 spot instances, custom traffic routing, and auto-scaling. I built ultra-low-latency Go pipelines (goroutines/channels) for millisecond alerts, engineered candle caching with a Lex parser-driven scanning engine for multi-year backtests, and sharded a 2+ TB MongoDB production environment while maintaining a polyglot data layer across PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, Cassandra, and Kafka.