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whoami

The infrastructure
nobody sees
until it breaks.

Gurugram, Haryana, India4th year B.Tech CSE, Polaris School of TechnologyCGPA 0.0 / 10

I spend most of my time in the parts of software people never look at — backend services, message queues, and the infrastructure that only becomes visible the moment it stops working.

I got here by breaking things on purpose: standing up a Docker lab on my laptop and wrecking it until SSH, Ansible, and a fleet of microservices finally behaved. I write the working version and the version that didn't — publicly, as I go.

Fast facts

// favourite number

changed=0 — a clean Ansible play recap is my idea of a good day.

// two GSoCs, two worlds

a 15-year-old GWT frontend at MIT App Inventor, then change-data-capture infra at Debezium / Red Hat.

// learning style

break it in a Docker lab, read the stack trace, fix it, write it down.

// comfort zone

the backend nobody sees. Discomfort zone: CSS — so I built the MacBook on the home page in pure CSS 3D.

// ships with

Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and an unreasonable fondness for observability dashboards.

// coffee

∞ — it's in the footer for a reason.

Currently

now

4th-year B.Tech CSE · Gurugram

building

host provisioning for the Debezium Platform (GSoC '26)

learning

Ansible, SSH, and the failure modes of real infrastructure

writing

dev.to — the working build and the one that broke

Open-source track

June – August 2024

C4GT — Code for GovTech

Samanway Foundation · Avni

March – September 2025

GSoC 2025

MIT App Inventor

2026

GSoC 2026 — ongoing

Debezium / Red Hat

full case studies → /projects

Toolbox

Languages

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Backend

Spring BootSpring FrameworkNode.jsExpress.js

Frontend

Next.jsVue.jsAngular

Cloud / DevOps

AWSDockerKubernetesKafkaJenkinsGitHub Actions

Observability

PrometheusGrafanaLokiTempoSpring Boot Actuator

Architecture

MicroservicesEvent-Driven ArchitectureSystem Design