Khushboo Verma · Backend & Infra Engineer

Core engineering at scale, built with a knack for developer community.

Backend and infrastructure engineer at the intersection of distributed systems and developer empathy. I design resilient release platforms by day, and break down complex engineering for 320K+ developers by night.

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5 Years

Backend & Infra

320K+

Dev community reach

10+

Global Tech Talks

Idea to Prod

Appwrite Sites

Execution Stack

The work spans the stack developers touch.

Platform engineering, developer tooling, and product delivery in one loop.

Backend & Infrastructure

Distributed systems · Reliability · Observability

Serverless Compute

Functions · Sites · Runtime Auto-detection

Deployment Pipelines

Release Infrastructure · Rollout Systems · FedRAMP

Developer Interfaces

CLI · REST API Design · SDKs · Documentation

Agent-Native Interfaces

Natural language over infrastructure tools with MCP

End-to-End Ownership

Architecture · Implementation · Launch · Adoption

Technical Talks

Technical sessions across backend systems, accessibility, observability, and runtime design.

June 2026Enterprise AI Agents MeetupLondon

The Runtime Boundary for AI Agents

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June 2025C++ on SeaUK

Smart Pointers, Dumb Mistakes

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May 2025PHPDayItaly

Async PHP with Coroutines: Building Scalable Apps

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March 2025LaraConIndia

Async PHP with Coroutines: Building Scalable Apps

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September 2024PyCon JapanJapan

Building Accessible Web Experiences with Python

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April 2024FOSSASIA 2024Vietnam

Cost-Efficient Monitoring with Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry for Startups

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Career Journey

2020 — present

Dec 2025 — PresentOrg: Infrastructure resiliency
Distributed Systems Engineer
Cloudflare
Engineered Cloudflare's FedRAMP release infrastructure to support 1,500+ daily production rollouts, while lowering developer cognitive load by building an internal AI/MCP server that exposed 15+ core infrastructure tools via natural language.
Nov 2022 — Dec 2025Org: Serverless Computing
Platform Engineer
Appwrite
Architected Appwrite Sites and scaled Appwrite Functions adoption by 80% by building zero-config runtime auto-detection pipelines and framework starter templates that slashed developer integration times by 50%.
Jul 2021 — Nov 2022Org: Azure Storage
Software Engineer
Microsoft
Developed core distributed backend infrastructure in C++ for Azure Ultra Disk, while engineering high-throughput monitoring dashboards and time-range filtering systems to guarantee tight SLAs for 20M+ daily blob ingestions.
Jan 2021 — Jul 2021Org: Core engineering
Product Intern
Adobe
Optimized core C++ graphics libraries across Adobe ecosystems, improving code quality metrics by 30% through resolving technical debt and enforcing semantic versioning.
May 2020 — Jul 2020Org: Outlook
Software Engineering Intern
Microsoft
Expanded the Outlook Web developer ecosystem by building C# and TypeScript APIs that integrated and pinned third-party add-ins and actionable messages natively.