Arunav Malhotra

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Building systems. Breaking them. Fixing them.

Delhi, IndiaJoined April 2026

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Lead Software Engineer building and scaling backend systems | Writing about production issues, system design tradeoffs, and lessons you don’t get from tutorials.

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HTTP QUERY: The New Method That Fixes the POST /search Lie

For years, backend teams have been writing APIs like this: POST /search Content-Type: application/json { "status": "active", "role": "admin", "createdAfter": "2026-07-01" } And everyone knew w

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