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  • Craft
    Learning AI, on purpose

    AI is moving faster than any of us can passively absorb. So I stopped trying to absorb it and started learning it deliberately — as a backend engineer, on purpose, a piece at a time.

  • Engineering
    Pipelines all the way down: data, video, and pixels

    My favourite kind of engineering is plumbing. Give me a firehose of data, a stream of video, or a pile of images and a pipeline to push them through, and I'm happy. Here's why — and the sprawl of tools it takes.

  • Engineering
    Designing a backend that manages 25,000 IoT assets

    REMA configures real hardware across 500+ enterprise sites — meters, sensors, controllers, gateways. When a bad write can mis-configure a physical device, the backend's job stops being CRUD and starts being safety.

  • Life & Peaks
    Keeping the ball alive since school

    Volleyball is my ultimate reset button. It also, surprisingly, taught me how to debug a production crash at 11pm without panicking.

  • Craft
    Automating approvals without losing the humans

    A workflow engine for enterprise service requests — multi-level approvals, SLA tracking, SOP scheduling across time zones. The hard part isn't the automation. It's deciding what stays human.

  • Engineering
    Schema design that ages well

    A schema is a promise you make to your future self. After designing MySQL schemas for configuration-heavy systems, here's what I've learned about the promises worth keeping.

  • Life & Peaks
    Chasing perspectives

    Travel photography is my newest obsession — my way of slowing down and capturing the narrative of a place. It's a work in progress, but it keeps me looking at the world from different angles.

  • Craft
    What 70 REST APIs taught me about API design

    Across a few backend systems I've shipped 70+ REST APIs. The endpoints blur together; the principles don't. A field guide to the ones that survived contact with production.

  • Life & Peaks
    Born in the hills

    Belonging to Uttarakhand, the mountains are in my DNA. There's a certain humility and clarity that comes with high altitudes — and it's where I go to remember how to think.

  • Craft
    From technical writer to backend engineer

    I spent a couple of years writing documentation for complex engineering systems before I built them. It turns out explaining a system clearly is the best possible training for designing one.