I build the platform that other people's websites run on.

I'm Venkatesh — a software engineer in Bangalore. Six years in, most of them spent on the half of the web nobody sees: the part that has to stay up.

I like problems where the win is measurable. Pages that used to wait on a server now mostly don't. Load times down, bills down, and uptime holding steady while the number of sites keeps growing.

I also build and ship client sites myself, which means I'm a customer of the kind of platform I work on. That loop — building the pipes and then using them — is most of how I've learned what actually matters.

Outside of that: mentoring engineers, code review, and explaining infrastructure to people who reasonably don't want to think about infrastructure.