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Adithyan Valloor

Backend-focused Full-Stack Engineer

I build reliable web systems with a focus on backend architecture, infrastructure, and what happens beneath the application layer.

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01.About

A little about how I approach engineering.

Kerala, India/Remote · Worldwide

My engineering journey began with the typical frontend-to-full-stack path, building applications with React and Node.js. But over time, I became more interested in what happens behind the application than what happens on the screen.

That curiosity pushed me further down the stack — exploring databases, networking, reverse proxies, caching, containers, and distributed systems. Today, I focus primarily on backend engineering, infrastructure, and system design, while still being comfortable building modern frontends when needed.

I believe good software engineering goes beyond writing code. Understanding the systems underneath an application helps me build software that is reliable, observable, and designed to scale.

02.Skills

Technologies and engineering concepts I use to build reliable, scalable web systems.

Backend

APIs, real-time communication & server-side systems

  • Node.js
  • Express
  • TypeScript
  • WebSockets
  • Socket.IO

Databases & Systems

Data storage, caching & system architecture

  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • System Design

Infrastructure

Containers, networking & traffic management

  • Docker
  • Linux
  • Nginx
  • Networking
  • Reverse Proxies

Frontend

Modern interfaces & component-driven development

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Semantic HTML

03. Featured Architecture

Whisp

A real-time communication platform engineered for high-concurrency event broadcasting and resilient connection handling.

Architectural Highlights

  • Modular Monolith: Designed with domain barriers allowing future service extraction.
  • Real-time Layer: WebSockets orchestrated via Socket.IO with Redis pub/sub for distributed event bus capabilities.
  • Infrastructure: Containerized via Docker and load balanced through Nginx.
  • Data Management: MongoDB for transactional state and Redis for session cache and pub/sub.
Node.jsTypeScriptRedisSocket.IOMongoDBDockerNginx
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04.Engineering Journey

How my interests evolved from building applications to understanding the systems behind them.

PresentCurrent

Distributed Systems & Infrastructure

Focusing on architecture, orchestration, caching layers, networking, and understanding how systems behave beneath the application layer.

Evolution

Backend Specialization

Moved deeper into backend engineering — building robust APIs, working with databases, real-time systems, caching, and service architecture.

Origin

Full-Stack Development

Started by building modern web applications with the MERN stack and Next.js while learning the fundamentals of the request-response lifecycle.

05. Get in Touch

Let's connect.

Open to engineering opportunities, collaborations, and conversations around backend systems, infrastructure, and building things that scale.