Open to Backend, GenAI & Full-Stack roles · remote or Hyderabad

Email me Schedule a call

// writing — 7 articles

Articles

FeaturedDev.to10 min readJul 5, 2026

We Shipped Tombstone v1.0. Then We Found Nine Bugs That Would Have Paged Us at 2am.

What happened when we pressure-tested Tombstone v1.0 against production reality: a kill switch silently returning 400, approval endpoints wired to routes never registered, a scheduler that could double-fire. Nine bugs. Nine fixes. Here's the post-mortem.

devopsopen-sourcesystem-designgo
Read note
Substackalso on
Jul 5, 2026

I Built trelix Because I Was Tired of Grepping My Way Through Codebases

How I built trelix — a zero-infra code intelligence engine that indexes any repo with Tree-sitter, runs 7-leg RRF retrieval, and answers questions about your codebase offline. From four hours of archaeology to a query that returns in 200ms.

pythonopen-sourceai
12 min
Dev.to
Jun 27, 2026

How I Built Inkforge: Designing an AI-Powered Article System with STORM Pipeline, BM25 RAG, and AWS Bedrock

How I designed Inkforge's generation engine — a STORM two-stage pipeline with explicit outline artifacts, in-process BM25 RAG (no vector DB), and Playwright-rendered LinkedIn carousels.

aitypescriptcontent
12 min
Substackalso on
Jun 27, 2026

I Built Tombstone Because I Was Tired of 2am Flag Incidents

Why I spent months building a self-hosted feature flag intelligence platform instead of just using LaunchDarkly — the 2am incident that started it, the Knight Capital lesson, and how circuit-breaker auto-rollback works.

feature-flagsopen-sourceengineering
13 min
Substackalso on
Jun 20, 2026

Feature Flags at Scale: Designing a Distributed Control System for Production Behavior

At scale, feature flags stop being booleans and become a distributed control plane — here's the architecture, failure modes, and operational patterns that make them work at millions of evaluations per second.

feature-flagssystem-designdistributed-systems
13 min
Hashnodealso on
Jun 20, 2026

How I Traced One Browser Request from Keystroke to Rendered Page

A packet-level walkthrough of what actually happens when you type www.google.com — DNS, TCP, TLS, HTTP, and rendering — with the latency costs and design trade-offs at each layer.

networkingdnstls
8 min
Essayalso on
Jun 19, 2026

How DNS Actually Works: Resolution Hierarchy, Caching, and Production Failure Modes

A systems-level walkthrough of DNS resolution — from browser cache to authoritative nameserver — covering record types, anycast infrastructure, GeoDNS, and the operational edge cases that bite engineers in production.

dnsdistributed-systemsnetworking
14 min