sand-ilya.dev/about
A Java backend engineer's portfolio.
I'm Sai Sandilya V, a Software Development Engineer at TIAA GBS building Java and Spring Boot services, Kafka-backed processing flows, and cloud-native backend systems.
Focus
What I am optimizing for
Reliability before cleverness
Make failure modes visible, expected, and recoverable before optimizing the happy path.
Simple interfaces
Keep service boundaries explicit with clear contracts, predictable payloads, and useful errors.
Production-shaped learning
Treat side projects as practice for deployment, observability, tuning, and operations.
Interests
Systems I like thinking about
Most of my projects sit near the places where backend code meets queues, workers, databases, cloud deployment, performance tuning, and testing discipline.
Current backend map
Certifications: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and OCI AI Foundations Associate.
Contact
Open to useful conversations
Recruiting, backend collaboration, and project discussions can start here.