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👤 About Me

Hi, I’m Venkat — a Senior Systems Engineer with 10 years in Distributed System design & architecture.

My work focuses on:
🔎 Designing scalable systems
🧭 Advocating & maintaining Scalable systems

🧰 Building and working on the backend for large-scale systems

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🌱 Empowering newcomers
🧠 Deconstructing tech hype
📣 Sparking meaningful debates + teaching

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