Ratnesh Maurya

Software Engineer

Backend-focused engineer working on Nestara's distributed systems and data pipelines. Drawn to hard problems in service reliability, loan decisioning latency, and the architecture choices that compound over time.

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BackendArchitecture6 min read

One active notification per lead: taming event storms with a partial unique index

A loan journey emits events faster than nudges can fire. Here's how we guarantee an applicant only ever gets the right one.

Ratnesh Maurya

Jun 17, 2026

BackendPerformance8 min read

Building a URL shortener that never guesses a code

Why we encode the primary key instead of generating random short codes, and what that decision removed from the system.

Ratnesh Maurya

Jun 17, 2026