Akshat Katiyar · Senior Platform Engineer
I build the pipesAI productsrun on.
I'm a senior platform engineer with 7+ years building developer infrastructure, automation, and distributed backend systems in Python and Go. At Commonwealth Bank I built the internal AI developer platform — coding-agent workspaces, MCP integrations, an LLM compatibility gateway, and evaluation telemetry — now used by 200+ engineers.
Latest writing
How Dragonfly Outruns Redis — A Backend Engineer's TourDragonfly serves millions of QPS on a single box where Redis caps around 100k. I read the source to find out which three decisions — and one fast-path trick — actually do the work.12 min readsystemsarchitectureperformanceDeterministic AI: Let the Model Interpret, Let Code DecideThe reliable way to ship LLM features isn't a better prompt — it's shrinking the model's job until everything around it is plain, testable code.3 min readaillmsystemsTwo AI Coding Agents, Not One: How I Actually ShipMost engineers now run Cursor and Claude Code in parallel — here's how I split the work between them, and why code-review discipline matters more than ever.5 min readaitoolsproductivity