Kushagra Bhalla

Backend engineer at Allstate India with 4 years of building Java microservices that handle insurance operations for millions of U.S. customers. I write about the stuff no course teaches you real production bugs, system design decisions, distributed systems trade-offs, and what it actually feels like to grow as a software engineer. Lately I've been going deep on AI/LLMs not the hype, but actually building with them and figuring out where they fit into real backend systems. Recently certified as a Claude Certified Architect. If you care about backend engineering done right, you're in the right place.