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// NOW

WHAT I'M UP TO.

A living snapshot — updated when things change. Inspired by Derek Sivers' /now movement.

// CURRENT STATUS
🏗BUILDING
SmartFormFlow — adding multi-step conditional logic and a real-time split-pane form preview
📖LEARNING
Distributed systems design — reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications
📍STATUS
Open to SDE-2 / senior backend roles · Remote preferred · India OK
🎓STUDYING
MSc Computer Science — graduating June–July 2026
OPEN TO BACKEND ROLES

Open to SDE-2 / senior backend roles. Remote preferred, India WFO considered.

// BUILDING

SMARTFORMFLOW.

Building multi-step conditional logic and a real-time split-pane form preview on top of the live Razorpay payment flow. Currently finishing the pre-launch checklist — legal pages, Sentry error tracking, and uptime monitoring — before opening the first 10 paying clients. The platform handles event registrations, certificate issuance, and WhatsApp/email messaging for SMB organizers. Built solo on a single VPS, 5-container Docker Compose stack.

// LEARNING

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS.

Reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann — working through the replication, partitioning, and consistency chapters. The QuizBuzz load-testing session surfaced a class of failure (data stranded in the wrong backing store during a topology change) that DDIA covers rigorously. Going through it as a way to put first-principles vocabulary on patterns already encountered in production.

ReplicationConsensusCAP TheoremEvent SourcingCQRSDistributed Transactions
// STATUS

OPEN TO ROLES.

Completing my MSc in Computer Science (June–July 2026), with 1.5 years of full-time production experience building backend systems, infrastructure, and async job pipelines. Targeting SDE-2 or senior backend engineer roles at startups — teams building real infrastructure where backend reliability matters. Remote preferred; open to WFO in India.

// CURRENT STACK

WHAT I'M WORKING WITH.

BACKEND
Node.jsTypeScriptExpressPrismaPostgreSQLZod
ASYNC & INFRA
BullMQRedisDockerAWSTerraformGitHub Actions
FRONTEND
Next.jsReactTailwind CSSFramer MotionTanStack Query