01Distributed Systems · 2026.03 · 8 min
The log is the truth
Ten services, no shared database, and one append-only record everyone agrees on. Notes on designing an event log you can actually reason about.
Paridhi Sharma
Chapter One: The Name
PARIDHI
Engineer.
Designer.
Builder.
Software engineer building distributed systems, predictive intelligence, and interfaces built to be remembered.
- Based in
- Delhi, India
- Currently
- Flipkart
- Focus
- Distributed systems
- Features
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Chapter Two: Manifesto
Portfolios are easy. Systems are not.
Ibuildtheonespeopleactuallyremember.
Position
Computer Science at IGDTUW. Software engineering at Flipkart, previously Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs. President of the Microsoft Student Chapter.
Preoccupation
Distributed systems, event logs, and the quiet discipline of observability — the parts of software nobody photographs.
Instruments
JavaPythonC++SQLSpring BootApache KafkaMicroservicesDockerRedisMySQLReactTailwind CSSScikit-LearnFastAPI
Chapter Three
The Features
Three systems, documented as they were built.
Feature_017 minute read
Distributed Systems
RetargetIQ
Ten services. One conversation.
A distributed recommendation platform built as an event-driven organism — ten Spring Boot services speaking asynchronously through Kafka, each one deaf to the others except through the log.
- Year
- 2025
- Role
- Architecture, Backend
- Stack
- Java · Spring Boot · Apache Kafka
Feature_026 minute read
Predictive Intelligence
AutoIQ
The machine tells you before it breaks.
An end-to-end predictive maintenance platform: sensor data in, failure probability out, with cost-sensitive learning that treats a missed failure as the expensive mistake it actually is.
- Year
- 2025
- Role
- ML Engineering, Backend
- Stack
- Python · FastAPI · Scikit-Learn
Feature_035 minute read
Interface Systems
Student Portal
Legacy systems, rewritten as calm.
A full academic management portal built against the usability failures of legacy university software — modular components, clean data surfaces, and workflows that survive a bad network.
- Year
- 2024
- Role
- Frontend Architecture
- Stack
- React · JavaScript · Tailwind CSS
Chapter Four: Record
2026 —
Flipkart
Software Engineer Intern · Bengaluru
2026 —
Microsoft Student Chapter
President · IGDTUW
2025
Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs
Software Engineer Intern · Gurugram
2024 —
IGDTUW
B.Tech Computer Science · CGPA 8.42
Top 200 of 27,000+ — Flipkart Girls Wanna Code 7.0
Semi-Finalist — EY Techathon 6.0
98.5% template extraction accuracy — log analytics platform, Flipkart
Chapter Five: Journal
04 entries · hover to readNotes from the workshop
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02Design · 2026.01 · 6 min
Interfaces are arguments
Every screen makes a claim about what matters. On drawing before building, and why the paper stage is the cheapest place to be wrong.
03Performance · 2025.11 · 11 min
A budget for latency
Tail latency is a design decision, not an accident. How to spend milliseconds deliberately across a request path.
04Practice · 2025.09 · 5 min
Teaching what you build
Running a student chapter taught me more about architecture than any design doc. On explaining systems to a room that will ask why.
Chapter Six: Dispatches
Said elsewhere
Post2026.04
Shipped a change that cut p99 on the ranking path by a third. The fix wasn't clever — it was deleting a synchronous call nobody remembered adding.
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Article2026.02
Notes from building an event-driven platform across ten services: contracts first, dashboards second, opinions last.
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Post2025.12
Spoke to the Microsoft Student Chapter about observability — the part of software nobody photographs, and the first thing you miss at 3am.
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Marginalia — Fun Facts
12 entriesFun Facts
Think you know me from my code? Think again.
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Before the keyboard
I did competitive gymnastics for eight years through DDA Sports under the Delhi Government, right up until 2019. Balance beams teach you more about debugging than most tutorials do.
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Chapter Seven: Correspondence
Do you wanna build a snowman? (let me know)
Delhi, India