Tanikesh Sharma

Backend Developer

Building scalable backend systems and distributed applications. Passionate about clean architecture, performance optimization, and developer experience.

GitHub LinkedIn Email

India

sharmatanikesh@gmail.com

02.Skills

Programming Languages

GoJavaTypeScriptBash

Tools & Platforms

gRPCGraphQLPostgreSQLPrismaDockerGCPGitNode.jsNext.jsReact.js

03.Projects

Backend Testing Framework & Standards

Designed and standardized service-level unit testing practices for backend services, defining testing boundaries and reducing reliance on excessive mocking. Built reusable test helpers and conventions to enhance test reliability, readability, and long-term maintainability across services.

GoGORMPostgreSQL

File Management & Async Processing Platform

Built a scalable file and folder management system with hierarchical organization and secure file sharing, achieving API latencies of <200ms for share/unshare operations and <100ms for file creation. Designed a fully asynchronous file processing pipeline for document-to-PDF conversion and thumbnail generation.

GogRPCPostgreSQLGCPPub/Sub

Ephemeral Preview Environments Platform

Engineered a containerized preview environment system that automatically deploys isolated instances of the entire stack (DB, workers, backend) for every Pull Request.

KubernetesHelmHAProxyGCPDockerIngress

04.Experience

May 2025 - Present

Product Engineer

Kwezy · Full-time

Remote

▹Designed and built scalable backend APIs in Go, refactoring legacy REST services to gRPC and improving maintainability, reducing response times by 20%.
▹Led database schema refactoring, introducing a structured migration system for managing changes across environments.
▹Enhanced monitoring and logging pipelines, reducing API latency from 2s to under 500ms and improving system observability.

Next.jsTypeScriptGoGraphQLgRPCGCP

Mar 2025 - May 2025

Product Intern

Kwezy · Internship

Remote

▹Collaborated on frontend and UI improvements, building reusable components to enhance maintainability.
▹Contributed to backend services by improving gRPC APIs, reducing request latency by 20%.

Next.jsTypeScriptGoGraphQLgRPC

Sep 2024 - Mar 2025

AI Engineering Intern

German Based Startup · Internship

Remote

▹Built a full-stack web app from scratch as a founding engineer, designing reusable dashboards and integrating them with Cloud Function–based APIs on GCP.
▹Enhanced and scaled RESTful APIs with AI/LLM-driven modules to automate key workflows, improving backend throughput by 30% and accelerating user tasks.

Next.jsTypeScriptPythonTailwind CSSDockerGCP

05.Education

Rashtriya Raksha University

B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering (Specialisation in Cybersecurity)

Oct 2021 - May 2025

CGPA: 8.17/10

Object Oriented ProgrammingDatabase Management SystemData Structures and AlgorithmsOperating SystemsComputer NetworksMachine LearningSoftware EngineeringArtificial IntelligenceDesign and Analysis of Algorithms