I'M
Sreenivas Bttv
I build systems beyond the UI.
Frontend-first engineer who goes deeper when things don’t behave.
Most problems don’t start in the UI.
They show up there.
So I learned to go deeper — APIs, databases,
and the behaviour of systems in production.
I don’t optimize for code that works.
I think about how it behaves when data grows, systems evolve, and edge cases appear.
Milliseconds to 30 seconds.
A query that once ran in milliseconds suddenly took 30 seconds in production.
Nothing obvious changed. But the impact was real.
That’s when I learned — systems don’t fail loudly.
They degrade silently.
How I think.
– Clarity over cleverness
– Understand first
– Simple systems scale better
– Performance is a responsibility
Recently started learning to swim.
Reminding myself that being a beginner
is part of staying sharp.
If you're working on something
that doesn’t behave the way it should —
I’d be interested.