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Jitendra Kumar

Senior Go Developer | Scalable Backend Systems

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Jitendra Kumar

• Sep 17

Shipped a live suite of developer utility tools — JSON formatter, validator, minifier, and diff checker; XML formatter/minifier/converter; encoding/decoding tools; UUID generation; and text-processing utilities.

Owned the project end-to-end: logic, parsing and conversion...

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Jitendra Kumar

• Sep 17

Architected and implemented the backend ingestion platform, processing OS events including

CPU/memory utilization, disk and partition changes, application lifecycle events, and system reliability

metrics.

Designed an event-driven microservices architecture using Golang and NATS to...

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Jitendra Kumar

• Sep 11

A Go concurrency bug that's easy to miss (and how to catch it)

Ran into this in a production service last month — a classic goroutine leak that didn't show up until load testing.

The pattern looked innocent:

func processOrders(orders <-chan Order) {
    for order := range orders {
        go func() {
            handle(order) // bug: order is captured by reference
        }()
    }
}

Before Go 1.22, order was a shared loop variable — every goroutine could...