# Aditya Dalmia Staff-level backend engineer and builder · Bengaluru, India Staff-level backend engineer and builder with about 7.5 years of experience across distributed systems, AI-agent and reinforcement-learning evaluation, product architecture, and engineering leadership. Has built high-throughput services, evaluation environments, and products from early design through delivery. ## Current opportunities - Staff-level backend, platform, or AI-systems engineering roles Contact: adityavd97@gmail.com · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aditya-vikram-dalmia-015818121/) · [GitHub](https://github.com/AdityaVikramDalmia) · [Web résumé](https://adityadalmia.com/resume.md) · [PDF](https://adityadalmia.com/Aditya-Dalmia-Resume.pdf) ## Experience ### Member of Technical Staff — Proximal Labs Feb 2026 to Jun 2026 · Bengaluru Engineered reinforcement-learning evaluation frameworks and environments for frontier AI research labs, measuring how advanced LLM agents reason, plan, and use tools. - Built reinforcement learning environments used by Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, and xAI - Built the agents and techniques that generate those environments in the first place - Contributor to FrontierSWE, a top unsaturated public coding benchmark - Led research into coding-agent failure modes across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini & Cursor CLI Technologies and domains: RL environments, Benchmark design, Eval infra, LLM agents ### Staff Software Engineer — Zepto Jul 2025 to Feb 2026 · Bengaluru Architectural owner for ShopX pre-order workflows in quick commerce, running services at up to 1.2M requests per minute. - Re-architected the Layout service (350k RPM) in Go with PITR, approvals & audit from day one - Ran the PGO proof-of-concept, cut CPU by 14%, and drove fleet-wide adoption - Migrated gRPC to vtproto: 5% RAM and 12% CPU saved at 1.2M RPM Technologies and domains: Go, gRPC / vtproto, PGO, Microservices ### Staff Software Engineer — Stealth Startup Jun 2024 to Jul 2025 · Hyderabad Led a team of 7 building the core backend for a decentralized creator-monetization platform, and shipped a string of products across crypto, payments, and search. - Built AI agents and LLM pipelines with DSPy across the product surface - Crypto backtesting platform with 18,000 users - Blockchain payment gateway that processed $75k+ - Telegram gaming platform (35k MAU) + geospatial discovery for 30k+ shops in Europe Technologies and domains: NestJS, PostgreSQL, Kafka, DynamoDB, DSPy ### Staff Software Engineer and team lead — Tekion Jun 2019 to May 2024 · Bengaluru Architected the Accounting-Core backend and led the monolith-to-microservices migration, then led a team of 40 through the European launch. - Led a team of 40 while holding the staff engineering role - Architected Accounting-Core and led the monolith to microservices migration - Onboarding pipelines at 2 to 5 billion documents a month, cutting onboarding from 12 hours to under 2 - Owned 12+ microservices for 2+ years post-migration - Named Top Performer 2022 Technologies and domains: Java, Spring Boot, MongoDB, AWS, Elasticsearch ### Associate Software Engineer — WiseL Jan 2019 to Jun 2019 · Gandhinagar Built computer-vision pipelines for document processing with OpenCV, scikit-learn, and NumPy, exposed through a FastAPI service layer. - Optical mark recognition at 98% accuracy - 20% speedup to the OCR path Technologies and domains: Python, OpenCV, scikit-learn, FastAPI ## Selected projects ### [Helmsman](https://adityadalmia.com/projects/helmsman/) Helmsman brings together research engines, shared data infrastructure, an operator workspace, and Structure Lab. Built independently, with a record of what we tried and what we learned. Contribution: Co-building the platform, architecture and engineering. Current state: Private research platform; verified 2026-09-22. Evidence: [Platform boundaries and replay tradeoffs](https://adityadalmia.com/blog/helmsman-building-a-platform/); [The operator workspace: source contracts and observed state](https://adityadalmia.com/blog/helmsman-control-plane/); [Structure Lab: definitions and evaluation](https://adityadalmia.com/blog/helmsman-structure-lab/) ### [RL environments](https://adityadalmia.com/projects/rl-environments/) Built reinforcement learning environments, the agents that generate them, and benchmarks for difficult engineering work at Proximal Labs. Contributor to FrontierSWE. Contribution: Former Member of Technical Staff at Proximal Labs. Current state: Work at Proximal Labs, February–June 2026; verified 2026-09-22. Evidence: [Environment engineering and contribution](https://adityadalmia.com/blog/rl-environments-are-systems/); [FrontierSWE v1 announcement](https://www.frontierswe.com/blog/v1) ### [Rental OS](https://adityadalmia.com/projects/rental-os/) An open-source prototype of rental operations across tenants, owners, operations staff, guards and admins. It explores shared identity, backend authorization and the handoffs between visits, bookings and agreements. Contribution: Product architecture and application engineering. Current state: Open-source prototype; verified 2026-09-23. Evidence: [Identity, workspace and authority across five roles](https://adityadalmia.com/blog/rental-os-one-person-many-roles/); [Company workflow: a property from lead to closure](https://adityadalmia.com/blog/rental-os-company-workflow/); [Deal room: proposals, sign-off and the counter-proposal fix](https://adityadalmia.com/blog/rental-os-inside-the-deal-room/); [System boundaries, the authorization sweep and unfinished integrations](https://adityadalmia.com/blog/rental-os-system-boundaries/); [Source code on GitHub (MIT)](https://github.com/AdityaVikramDalmia/rental-platform-os); [Request role-specific demo access](https://adityadalmia.com/projects/rental-os/#demo-access) ### [BNC Cloud](https://adityadalmia.com/projects/bnc-cloud/) A Kubernetes platform I designed and run on Hetzner: cloud workers, a dedicated server for memory-heavy work, and a burst pool that scales to zero. More than forty components sit behind Git-driven deployments. This site runs on it. Contribution: Architecture, build and operations. Current state: Independent lab platform; verified 2026-09-23. Evidence: [Platform design and operating tradeoffs](https://adityadalmia.com/blog/cloud-building-my-own-platform/); [Two network planes: private access and administration](https://adityadalmia.com/blog/cloud-two-network-planes/); [Durable workflow integration](https://adityadalmia.com/blog/cloud-self-hosted-temporal/); [Database connection budgets and verification](https://adityadalmia.com/blog/cloud-postgres-pools-and-proof/) ### [Cross-repo Skill Registry](https://adityadalmia.com/projects/skill-registry/) A shared knowledge and skill platform across repositories and machines. MCP discovery, hybrid search, provenance, verification, and explicit relationships between entries. Contribution: Service design and engineering. Current state: Private agent infrastructure; verified 2026-09-22. Evidence: [Retrieval, provenance and degraded-mode behavior](https://adityadalmia.com/blog/skill-registry-cross-repo-knowledge/) ### [Flightdeck Tools](https://adityadalmia.com/projects/agent-tooling/) An engineering case study in coordinating work, preserving state, and checking evidence. Eleven projects with thirteen tools, published as public Apache-2.0 reference implementations. Contribution: System design and integration, with AI-assisted extraction and review. Current state: Deprecated for new Claude Code integrations since September 22, 2026; verified 2026-09-23. Evidence: [Contracts, verification limits and deprecation decision](https://adityadalmia.com/projects/agent-tooling/); [Durable Mailbox source](https://github.com/AdityaVikramDalmia/flightdeck-durable-mailbox); [Session Ledger source](https://github.com/AdityaVikramDalmia/flightdeck-session-ledger); [Job Heartbeat source](https://github.com/AdityaVikramDalmia/flightdeck-job-heartbeat); [Decision Ledger source](https://github.com/AdityaVikramDalmia/flightdeck-decision-ledger); [Gate Runner source](https://github.com/AdityaVikramDalmia/flightdeck-gate-runner); [Shell Lock source](https://github.com/AdityaVikramDalmia/flightdeck-shell-lock); [Worktree Guard source](https://github.com/AdityaVikramDalmia/flightdeck-worktree-guard); [Agent File Guards source: Shrink Guard, NUL Lint and Untrusted Intake](https://github.com/AdityaVikramDalmia/flightdeck-agent-file-guards); [Repo Health source](https://github.com/AdityaVikramDalmia/flightdeck-repo-health); [Config Baseline source](https://github.com/AdityaVikramDalmia/flightdeck-config-baseline); [Review Receipts source](https://github.com/AdityaVikramDalmia/flightdeck-review-receipts); [Examples companion: synthetic demos and case studies](https://github.com/AdityaVikramDalmia/flightdeck-examples) ## Technical domains and technologies - **Languages:** Python, Go, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript - **AI & agent systems:** Coding-agent evaluation, RL environments, Benchmark design, DSPy, LangGraph, LiteLLM, Langfuse, Arize Phoenix - **Backend:** Spring Boot, Kafka, NestJS, GraphQL, FastAPI, gRPC - **Data:** PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, ScyllaDB - **Cloud & infra:** AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD - **Blockchain:** Solidity, Hardhat, Neon EVM (Solana), Filecoin These groups record demonstrated work and tools from the canonical career record; they do not claim equal depth in every item. ## Education - Bachelor of Technology, Mahindra University, Hyderabad, India (2019) --- Canonical URL: https://adityadalmia.com/resume.md Last verified: 2026-09-22