# $ whoami --verbose

Software engineer, currently an SRE at Blinkit.

On weekends, i try to read and build random stuff.

# $ history | grep -i work

• Blinkit 2020 – present

  • Site Reliability Engineer 2023 – present - managing Kafka and Postgres, building platform tools.
  • Software Engineer, Supply Chain (Warehouse) 2020 – 2023 - building microservices for warehouse operations.

• MyAdvo 2017 – 2020

  • Software Engineer 2017 – 2020 - my first startup out of college. Built a lot from scratch and learned along the way: Django, Postgres, Celery, scraping and mining legal datasets across India, and managing cloud infrastructure.

• ISRO Summer 2015

  • Software Engineer Intern Summer 2015 - a brief internship. Spent most of the time on learning how to build Android apps

# $ history | grep -i college

I used to do competitive programming in college - CodeChef, HackerRank, Codeforces. Also participated in ACM ICPC regionals in 2015 (Amritapuri, India).

Then i got hooked on Linux and open source, and started building random things on GitHub for fun.

Studied Computer Science at MBM Engineering College, Jodhpur, graduated in 2017.

# $ ls ~/projects/  # few of my side projects - bespoke hand written code before LLM happened

• notes-cli

  daily markdown notes on the terminal, synced to a GitHub gist (your free remote DB).

• go-fileserver

  share files over WiFi via QR code.

• magrrite

  generate ASCII art from any image.

• market-watch

  a PWA for live market indices. Built during COVID in 2021, when Google stopped showing the NIFTY index on search for a few weeks; I wanted all the indices in one place.

• Pickup-line

  terrible pickup lines in your terminal. A silly CLI I built back in college.

rest of my work on github →

# $ tail -f ~/now.log  # what I'm into these days

Learning electronics from the ground up - ESP32, H-bridges, DC motors. i wrote about the early days of this in Hardware is hard?

i also tweet occasionally - mostly half-formed thoughts and stuff i find interesting @prdpx7

# $ cat contact.txt

cenqrrcpubhqunel009@tznvy.pbz | rot13  # click to view email - trying to prevent spam from webscrapers

# $ echo $THIS_SITE

Built with Hugo. No trackers, no google analytics bullshit.

PS: if you find 3D animations in my blog posts - they're all vibe-coded with Claude.

PPS: all the posts on this blog are written by a human.