Hi, I’m Vidya.
I build software, systems, and occasionally problems that require software and systems to solve.
I’ve spent the last several years working across backend engineering, cloud infrastructure, AI, startups, and engineering leadership.
This is where I write about what I’ve learned while building things. The useful patterns. The less useful assumptions. The decisions that looked perfectly reasonable before they met production.
Publication first. Portfolio second.
Good engineering writing makes the reasoning visible. What did we know? What did we trade away? What would we do differently?
That’s the kind of space I want this to be: serious about the work, comfortable with uncertainty, and willing to laugh at a questionable decision.
Things I keep coming back to
- AI & Agents
- Making machines do things.
- Distributed Systems
- Everything is fine until the network gets involved.
- Backend
- The part nobody sees until it breaks.
- Infrastructure
- Where simple ideas go to become expensive.
- Cloud
- Someone else’s computer, now with billing alerts.
- Startups
- Making decisions before we have enough information.
- Leadership
- Apparently, code isn't the hard part.
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