Hello.

I’m Om

Lead Backend Engineer

Ten years building secure, multi-tenant enterprise software, and now the backends behind AI agents. Off the clock I build my own apps, run my own servers and write about both.

Omprakash Gautam, smiling, leaning on a railing by a lake
  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • Kafka
  • OpenSearch
  • Redis
  • Kubernetes
  • MCP & AI agents
  • Docker

Career

  1. Lead Full Stack Software Engineer

    Qualys, Pune · Sept 2019 – present

    Grew from engineer to lead across three product areas. Now leading the middleware and API layer of an enterprise risk platform and building backends for AI agents.

  2. Module Lead, Identity & Access Management

    Persistent Systems, Pune · Sept 2016 – Sept 2019

    Led a module of an identity product, from requirements to release.

About me

I like systems that are secure, fast and easy to operate. At work that means search, event pipelines and API platforms, and leading the engineers who build them. Lately it also means giving AI agents the tools they need to be useful.

Outside work I build the OneLifeStack apps, run a small homelab and a VPS, and share what I learn on my blog. I’m based in Pune, India.

10+Years in backend engineering
13Engineers in the team I lead
3Services taken from empty repo to production
14+Releases led, from first demo to GA

Selected work

3 new tools
defined from a post-launch review of where the agent answered poorly

Backends for AI agents

  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • MCP
  • REST

Task, execution and planning APIs behind production AI agents, and a feedback loop that turns observed agent failures into new tools.

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10 s → 351 ms
on a cached listing, in test-environment benchmarks

Search and event pipelines at scale

  • OpenSearch
  • Kafka
  • Redis
  • Performance

A search and aggregation layer plus Kafka-driven pipelines over large multi-tenant datasets, with strict per-customer scoping and a performance program.

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5 → 13
engineers in the team as the platform went from first demo to GA

From empty repository to production

  • Spring Boot
  • Kubernetes
  • Migration
  • Leadership

Three Spring Boot codebases bootstrapped from nothing, two of them taken to production, with multi-tenant isolation, auth and Kubernetes delivery.

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8 apps
launcher, phone, routines, app lock, e-book reader, video editor and more

OneLifeStack: my own apps, built in public

  • Android
  • Kotlin
  • Self-hosting
  • Docker

A family of native Android apps that cooperate on the device, plus the web, backend and self-hosted infrastructure around them.

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Contact

Let’s talk.

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omprakash201194@gmail.com

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