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Ishan Koradia

Curiosity-driven Engineer

5+ years in infrastructure & backend · Bengaluru, India

A little about me — I'm a infrastructure and backend engineer with 5+ years behind me. I get a little excited when things break; rebuilding them so they don't is the fun part. I think about scale without over-engineering for problems we don't have yet, and I do my best work in ambiguous spaces where the path isn't drawn. I've built data platforms and designed APIs across all kinds of domains — and I'm happiest when a project teaches me something new.

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traceroute my-journey

I grew up wanting to be an astronaut. I never made it to space — but the thing underneath that dream, a stubborn need to understand how things work, has steered every step since: across physics, electromagnetics, a few countries, and eventually into software.

2014–18 Hyderabad
B.Tech in Electrical Engineering at Mahindra College of Engineering — the closest thing to the physics & maths I loved
2019 Hyderabad
A year doing analytics at a renewable wind-energy startup
2020 Ann Arbor
M.S. in Applied Electromagnetics at the University of Michigan — where software quietly found me, buried in simulation code
2021 Mumbai
Came home as COVID hit, went all in, and started from scratch as a software engineer

What I want next sits where scale, distributed systems, and impact meet — stretching everything I've learned on a product that reaches a million people or more, where getting the engineering right genuinely matters to the people on the other end.

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things I keep close TTL: ∞

curiosity

I can't use something without asking "how does this work?" — taking it apart is how I learn fastest

ownership

If I build it, I own it — from first commit to production

clarity

Sometimes the simplest thing is the clever thing.

depth

I'd rather understand one thing deeply than five things superficially

open-source

The best software is built in the open

fundamentals

Frameworks change, principles don't

writing

If you can't explain it, you don't understand it

empathy

Good systems serve people. Understanding the user matters more than optimizing the code.

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f3a1b2c Project Tech4Dev Bengaluru, India Jan 2023 — Present· 3.5 yrs

Software Engineer — Dalgo

Trust & Reliability
  • Scaled Dalgo's ELT infrastructure from 2 concurrent pipelines to effectively unlimited on Kubernetes — cutting customer sync wait times from hours to under 2 minutes
  • Set up monitoring and alerts across the infrastructure (EC2, RDS, EKS) on a Prometheus + Grafana stack — cutting mean time to detect incidents to under 2 minutes
  • Led quarterly Airbyte and Prefect upgrades to stay on security patches and new connectors, avoiding version drift
  • Drove root-cause analyses (RCAs) for major infrastructure incidents and the fixes that followed
Product Engineering
  • Drove Dalgo v2's customer-facing features — Metrics, KPIs, Alerts, Charts, and Dashboards — that helped operationalize data for our clients and their organizations
  • Built Dalgo v1's flagship features — pipeline orchestration and a node-based graphical UI for setting up data transformations, letting non-technical users model their data without writing SQL
  • Built an AI-assisted development harness on Claude Code — skills, agents, and commands — plus a workflow teams can use to build out features or create quick prototypes
Community & Enablement
  • Mentored 2 junior developers from other verticals — from unblocking a tricky bug to setting their goals and pushing them to learn beyond their day-to-day work
  • Consulted with 2 clients to design and build their data pipelines in dbt (data build tool)
  • Started "The Fellowship of the Tech4Dev" — an internal dev community where engineers come together to share learnings and present on topics that interest them
DjangoPrefectdbtAirbytePostgreSQLTerraformHelmEKSKubernetesCeleryGrafana
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c2b8e9f Think201 Bengaluru, India Mar 2022 — Jan 2023· 11 mos

Software Engineer

Jun 2022 — Jan 2023
  • Developed RESTful API services for clients on a microservices architecture
  • Worked across the Finance, Entertainment, and Travel domains — understanding requirements and designing database schemas
  • Integrated various 3rd-party APIs, carefully reading their documentation and aligning with client requirements
  • Built an order analyzer for one of the in-house trading apps

Back End Developer Apprentice

Mar 2022 — Jun 2022
  • Started as an apprentice building backend services
  • Learned the fundamentals of JWT-based authentication
NodeJSExpressPostgreSQLRedisPythonFlask
b5f2a8d ITdeation Technologies LLP Mumbai, India Mar 2021 — Feb 2022· ~1 yr

Software Developer

  • Worked across the full stack — building user-facing interfaces and the back-end services behind them
  • Designed database schemas and delivered features end to end
PHPLaravelReactMySQLJavaScript
8e1c4b7 Aga Khan Foundation Canada Remote Mar 2021 — Jul 2021· 4 mos

Data Platforms Intern

  • Cleaned and prepped data using Python for data science and ML applications
  • Built dashboards and reports for various projects — data visualization
PythonpandasData Visualization

sidecar // giving back to the community & side hustles

projects

Semantic Bookmarks

Author

Got tired of saving bookmarks and never finding them again — so I built semantic search over them. Shipped end-to-end as a web app, Chrome extension, and Android app, backed by a FastAPI service. 50+ users onboarded so far.

Next.jsFastAPIAndroidChrome Extension

Onyx — Discord Connector

Open Source Contributor

Open-source contribution to Onyx, an AI-powered search and RAG platform. Built the Discord connector that indexes message content from server channels, enabling AI search over conversations.

Python

Robin Hood Army

Volunteer Engineer

Revamping the data & tech systems for a zero-funds organization fighting hunger and illiteracy.

Next.jsReactTypeScriptTailwind
speaking

Data Platform for Social Impact

Co-speaker

Walked the audience through the architecture of Dalgo — how an open-source ELT platform is built to help NGOs and social-impact organizations put their data to work.

PyCon India 2024
giving back
Robin Hood Army Mar 2026 — Present· 4 mos

Volunteer

Revamping data & tech systems for a zero-funds organization solving hunger and illiteracy.

Aga Khan Development Network Mar 2021 — Present· ~5 yrs

Data & MIS Committee

Managing apps, systems and infrastructure for the Aga Khan Council for India — the community administrative body operating under AKDN.

Reach for Stars — Cycle 8 Jan 2026 — Present· 6 mos

Mentor

Mentoring 2 folks who want to build their career in software — via Aga Khan Education Services.

event-log // writing

message-queue

last deployed Aug 1, 2026