Staff-level Go Engineer
I’m Jagadesh Achanta, a St. Louis-based backend and platform engineer who has spent the last decade building Go systems and the Kubernetes infrastructure that keeps them healthy. I help product and platform teams scale APIs, operators, and control planes while keeping delivery fast and operations boring.
Teams bring me in when they need senior Go judgment—low-latency services, resilient data pipelines, or controller logic that glues cloud platforms together. I meet them where they are, co-own outcomes, and make sure the codebase remains approachable long after handoff.
Go expertise
I specialise in Go-first ecosystems where reliability, observability, and iteration speed matter. Typical mandates blend backend delivery with platform automation.
Design and implement APIs, data pipelines, and background workers that can carry regulated workloads and tight SLOs.
Author custom controllers that turn operational knowledge into automated, tested reconciliation logic.
Build the tooling that lets Go services deploy, observe, and recover predictably across environments.
Working style
Trace requests, map deployments, read the code, and spot the edges where reliability slips. I produce a concise technical brief so stakeholders agree on the problems worth solving.
Pair with your team to deliver the Go services, controllers, or tooling we agree on. Everything ships with tests, instrumentation, and runbooks so production never feels like a science experiment.
Document decisions, run knowledge-transfer sessions, and create dashboards that keep the system honest. I stay available for architecture reviews as workloads evolve.
Selected engagements
Re-architected Go services handling 20k requests/sec and introduced KServe-backed canaries to meet strict audit controls.
Built Go-based controllers that orchestrate Kubeflow jobs and GPU pools, enabling nightly retrains under HIPAA/SOC2 constraints.
Led the Go control plane for a multi-cloud Kubernetes offering, unifying provisioning, policy, and billing integrations.
Core stack
Writing & talks
How I use Go to design resilient operators, admission webhooks, and telemetry pipelines that support ML teams.
A controller-runtime deep dive covering reconciliation design, testing, and rollout strategies.
Combining Go automation with scheduling policies to balance spend, reliability, and developer experience.
If you need a senior engineer who can ship Go services, tame Kubernetes, and mentor teams along the way, let’s talk. I work remotely with US-friendly hours and have open availability for 2025 engagements.