I build the parts of a restaurant's tech stack that keep running when the internet doesn't.

I'm Thushar — a senior engineer with roughly a decade of experience building backend platforms, payment integrations and the infrastructure underneath them. The work I find most interesting sits where the network gets unreliable: point-of-sale terminals on a restaurant floor, kitchen displays mid-rush, devices that have to keep transacting whether or not the cloud is reachable.

Most recently I've been designing a mesh-based offline communication layer for POS, CDS and KDS across Windows, iOS and Android — peer discovery with libp2p, fault-tolerant messaging over NATS, and secure payment flows with Verifone and Adyen terminals over LAN. Before that: GraphQL federation, Kubernetes platforms, and quite a few greenfield backends in Go and Node.js.

I care about correctness, observability, and writing systems other engineers can reason about a year later. Outside of work I'm usually tinkering with home infrastructure, reading systems papers, or walking somewhere new in Melbourne.