Thilakshan Baskaran

Backend Engineer

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About

Backend software engineer with 4+ years of experience architecting distributed systems in healthcare environments where reliability, security, and scale are non-negotiable. Deep expertise in .NET, event-driven architectures with Kafka, and real-time service communication via gRPC, building systems that handle millions of patient records under strict HIPAA compliance.

Proven ability to design and deliver complex integrations across clinical systems, including EHR platforms and laboratory information systems, orchestrating bi-directional synchronization with consistency guarantees at scale. Experienced building services that support real-time clinical operations, patient portals, biospecimen tracking, and cross-system data integrity validation.

Strong cloud and infrastructure foundation with hands-on AWS experience (EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, API Gateway, CloudFormation), containerized deployments with Docker, and CI/CD pipeline automation. Comfortable decoupling services with message brokers, optimizing for throughput and latency in high-stakes production environments.

Brings domain knowledge in healthcare data systems combined with the distributed systems mindset needed for fault-tolerant, observable, and scalable backend architectures.

📍 NYC

Selected Projects

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Collaborative document editing.

Last updated: 2/3/2026
C#

No description provided.

Last updated: 1/30/2026
Java

Video Sharing Application. much like Youtube

Last updated: 1/18/2026
C#

A modern real-time collaborative text editor built with cutting-edge web technologies: QUIC, HTTP/3, WebTransport, and Yjs CRDTs.

Last updated: 1/4/2026
Go

This project demonstrates a high-performance leaderboard system using Redis Sorted Sets for low-latency reads and a Write-Behind pattern for asynchronous SQL database persistence.

Last updated: 1/3/2026
C#

This repository contains a solution with multiple microservices that communicate synchronously using gRPC. Unlike traditional REST APIs which often use JSON over HTTP/1.1, these services utilize HTTP/2 and binary serialization (Protobuf) for reduced latency and higher throughput.

Last updated: 1/3/2026
C#dotnetgrpc

Education

Queens College, City University of New York
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science
New York, NY

Technical Skills

Languages
C#JavaGoPythonTypeScriptNode.jsGraphQLSQL
Frameworks
.NETSpring BootKafkagRPCReactElastic StackHibernatePySpark
Software & Cloud
DockerRedisMavenEC2LambdaS3RDSAPI GatewayCloudFormationPalantir Foundry