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Mahesh Kadambala
Available for Q3/Q4 Project Engagements & Retainers

Building Scalable Backends, SaaS Platforms & AI Workflows

I help B2B SaaS companies, startup founders, and engineering teams architect resilient backend systems, integrate AI workflows, eliminate database bottlenecks, and modernize critical infrastructure — built to scale without expensive rewrites.

Multi-Tenant SaaS Architecture

Fail-closed data isolation

High-Scale Search & DSLs

<150ms p95 across 1M+ docs

Zero-Data-Loss Eventing

Kafka + Transactional Outbox

Database Performance Tuning

Up to ~60% latency reduction

Pragmatic AI & LLM Workflows

Tenant-safe RAG & agents

<150ms

p95 search latency over 1M+ multi-tenant records

~60%

Latency reduction on high-traffic production endpoints

99.9%

Production uptime across multi-tenant enterprise microservices

0

Cross-tenant data leaks and lost events by construction

Problems I Solve

Direct, client-focused engineering solutions for common architectural bottlenecks and scale challenges.

Query & Architecture Tuning

Backend Becoming Difficult to Scale?

Friction point: Endpoints slowing down, database connection timeouts, and fear of traffic spikes.

I analyze EXPLAIN ANALYZE query plans, design composite indexing strategies, tune connection pooling, and refactor heavy transactional bottlenecks — often cutting p95 response times by 50–60% without adding expensive infrastructure.

Tenant-Safe AI Integration

Need AI Inside an Existing SaaS Product?

Friction point: Want to introduce LLMs or intelligent search, but don't know how to guarantee tenant isolation and data accuracy.

I integrate tenant-aware RAG pipelines, structured agent workflows, and vector search on top of your existing database so your users get contextual AI insights without compromising security or data boundaries.

Zero-Data-Loss Eventing

Systems That Don't Talk Reliably?

Friction point: Events disappearing during failures, duplicate records created, and out-of-sync services.

I implement event-driven architectures with the Transactional Outbox pattern, idempotent consumers, and Dead Letter Queues (DLQ) to ensure every transaction and external webhook is processed exactly once with zero data loss.

Progressive Modernization

Brittle Legacy Backend Slowing You Down?

Friction point: Every new feature breaks existing functionality; developers are afraid to touch the codebase.

I progressively decouple monolithic services, wrap critical business logic in automated integration tests using Testcontainers, and refactor risky endpoints without requiring a risky, expensive full-rewrite.

Consulting & Engineering Services

Specialized technical offerings tailored for B2B SaaS companies, startup founders, and engineering teams.

Core Architecture

SaaS Backend Engineering

High-concurrency APIs, multi-tenant data isolation, and robust backend systems built to scale without rewrites.

Key Deliverables:

  • Multi-tenant backend architecture with fail-closed schema or row isolation
  • High-throughput, tenant-scoped REST/GraphQL APIs with sub-100ms response targets
  • Enterprise authentication & RBAC (JWT rotation, session security, SSO readiness)
JavaSpring BootPostgreSQLRedis
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Intelligent Workflows

AI Integration for SaaS

Embed LLMs, AI agents, RAG pipelines, and intelligent workflows directly into your existing SaaS products.

Key Deliverables:

  • Tenant-isolated RAG pipelines with vector databases (pgvector, Elasticsearch, Qdrant)
  • Deterministic AI agent workflows with human-in-the-loop approval hooks
  • Structured output validation and automated fallback mechanisms
PythonFastAPISpring BootOpenAI / Claude APIs
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Distributed Systems

System & API Integration

Reliable event-driven pipelines, third-party platform integrations, and asynchronous messaging that never drop data.

Key Deliverables:

  • Transactional Outbox implementation with guaranteed at-least-once message delivery
  • Idempotent consumer handlers with dead-letter queue (DLQ) automated retry and alert policies
  • Custom bi-directional webhooks and third-party SaaS integrations (Stripe, HubSpot, ERPs)
Apache KafkaAWS SQSPostgreSQLRabbitMQ
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Performance & Rescue

Backend Modernization & Rescue

Diagnose slow queries, eliminate database bottlenecks, untangle legacy codebases, and stabilize fragile production systems.

Key Deliverables:

  • In-depth architectural and database performance audit with actionable priority matrix
  • PostgreSQL query optimization, composite indexing, and connection pool right-sizing (cutting latencies up to 60%)
  • Zero-downtime database schema migrations and refactoring of high-risk endpoints
PostgreSQLSpring BootJavaRedis
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Selected Case Studies & Architectures

Real production systems, concrete trade-offs, and verified business outcomes — not just code snippets.

Enterprise SaaSProduction

2023 — Present

EquipOS

Multi-tenant equipment lifecycle & field operations SaaS platform

High-scale multi-tenant enterprise platform powering equipment tracking, automated warranty claims, inventory, and dynamic service lifecycles with sub-150ms search over 1M+ records.

JavaSpring BootMulti-TenancyPostgreSQL
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Developer ToolsMaintained

2024

Spring Search DSL

Safe-by-construction enterprise query parser and search compiler

High-performance open-source query compiler that parses user search syntax into ASTs and generates parameter-safe, tenant-isolated queries across SQL and Elasticsearch backends.

JavaSpring BootElasticsearchPostgreSQL
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BackendMaintained

2023

Kafka Outbox

Distributed data consistency & zero-data-loss event messaging architecture

Production reference implementation for guaranteed at-least-once message delivery between microservices — transactional outbox, polling relay, idempotent consumer deduplication, and dead-letter handling.

JavaSpring BootKafkaPostgreSQL
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Developer ToolsMaintained

2024

Multi-Tenant SaaS Starter

Production-ready schema-per-tenant Spring Boot architecture starter

Drop-in multi-tenant architecture starter providing automatic request-scoped tenant resolution, dynamic datasource routing, fail-closed security, and thread-safe async context propagation.

JavaSpring BootMulti-TenancyPostgreSQL
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Risk-Reduction Process

How I Work With You

A structured, de-risked approach from initial problem discovery to production deployment and team handover.

01Days 1–3

Understand & Audit

Deep dive into your business goals, user pain points, system bottlenecks, and technical constraints. I audit your existing codebase, database query plans, and architecture to identify high-leverage opportunities.

Output: System Audit Report, Architecture Strategy, and Scope of Work with clear deliverables.

02Week 1

Architect & Contract

Define clean domain boundaries, data models, API contracts, and isolation guarantees before writing application code. Every key architectural trade-off is documented upfront.

Output: API Specifications, Schema Designs, and Migration / Implementation Plan.

03Weeks 2–4+

Build & Integrate

Execute the backend implementation, AI integrations, or performance refactoring with rapid, iterative milestones. Clean, typed, maintainable code backed by continuous communication.

Output: Working, production-ready modules, PRs, and weekly staging deployments.

04Final Phase

Validate & Stress-Test

Verify system invariants under real-world conditions. Comprehensive integration testing against real containerized databases, failure-injection tests, and query latency validation.

Output: Automated test suites (JUnit, Testcontainers), benchmark reports, and security verification.

05Launch

Deploy & Handover

Seamless production deployment, CI/CD pipeline automation, observability setup, and detailed documentation so your in-house team can comfortably maintain and extend the system.

Output: Production deployment, Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), and team walkthrough session.

Technical Depth & Capabilities

Technologies are supporting evidence for building reliable, performant, and maintainable systems.

Backend & Core Engineering

Battle-tested, typed backend frameworks designed for high concurrency and maintainability.

Java 17+Spring BootSpring Data JPASpring SecurityPythonFastAPIRESTful APIsGraphQL

Architecture & Distributed Systems

Designing for resilience, domain-driven boundaries, and zero data loss under network partitions.

MicroservicesMulti-Tenancy (Schema & Row)Event-Driven ArchitectureTransactional Outbox PatternIdempotent ConsumersDomain-Driven Design (DDD)CQRS

Data & Caching Infrastructure

High-performance data storage, complex indexing, and tactical caching layers.

PostgreSQL (Query Tuning & EXPLAIN)Redis (Facet Caching & Token Stores)Elasticsearch (AST-Compiled Search)MySQLpgvector

Distributed Messaging & Streaming

Asynchronous messaging pipelines built to survive broker failures and duplicate deliveries.

Apache KafkaAWS SQSRabbitMQDead Letter Queues (DLQ)Schema Registry

AI Integration & Workflows

Embedding practical, tenant-safe intelligence and automation into existing platforms.

LLM API Orchestration (OpenAI / Claude)Tenant-Scoped RAGKnowledge Graphs & Vector SearchStructured Outputs & GuardrailsDeterministic AI Agents

Cloud, Containers & DevOps

Modern containerized infrastructure with repeatable testing and deployment pipelines.

AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, SQS)Docker & Docker ComposeKubernetesGitHub Actions (CI/CD)Testcontainers (Real infra tests)

Frontend & Full-Stack Interfaces

Modern, type-safe client dashboards and administrative interfaces that connect seamlessly with backends.

ReactNext.js (App Router)TypeScriptTailwind CSS

Technical Insights & Architecture Notes

In-depth essays on distributed reliability, PostgreSQL optimization, and AI engineering discipline.

AI Engineering3 min read

AI-Assisted Engineering Without Losing the Plot

A year of using AI agents on production backend code: where they genuinely compress work, where they quietly create debt, and the review discipline that makes the difference.

Architecture3 min read

Building an Enterprise Search Engine on the JVM

How we replaced unindexed SQL filtering with a custom query DSL compiled to tenant-scoped Elasticsearch queries — the grammar, the AST, the trade-offs, and what I'd do differently.

Distributed Systems3 min read

The Transactional Outbox, Properly

Dual-writes between your database and Kafka will lose events — quietly, rarely, and at the worst time. Here's the outbox pattern as actually implemented, including the parts the diagrams skip.

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