Backend Engineer | Recurse Center | Lawyer turned Programmer | currently @helpshift
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Joined July 2021
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#2021 marked a number of firsts. For each milestone in my journey into Computer Science, I left breadcrumbs in the form of blog posts
38 posts and counting!🤩
Looking back…
1/15
#CodeNewbie #100DaysOfCode #nodejs
#programming #DEVCommunity #webdeveloper #code #clojure #vscode
Learning with AI has become too easy. The pain of figuring things out is gone. This is especially concerning for a self-taught engineer like me.
What’s the best way to use AI as a teacher that forces you to do the hard work. But with the right nudges.
I'll be speaking at @clojure_conj 2025 in Charlotte, North Carolina
I'll be sharing my story of switching from a career in law to the world of tech. If you're attending, please reach out – I'd love to connect!
I managed to take down my entire server with a personal project. 😅🚨
A rogue Java app caused a silent but major outage on my GCP VM. I wrote up a quick post-mortem on how I found the culprit, fixed the mess, & what I learned so it never happens again.
👇 otee.dev/2025/07/08/personal…
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What’s the difference between testing 🧪for bugs and searching 🔍 for bugs?
Property based tests search for unknown unknowns 🕵️ without relying on the programmer’s ability to enumerate test cases.
Hear more in my recent talk 👇
youtube.com/watch?v=5tCzdkPP…
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Yesterday, when the #UAE was celebrating #EmiratiWomenDay, my sister was crying in my arms in a hotel room in Abu Dhabi after a series of events.
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Unlock the power of polymorphism in Clojure with Protocols! 🚀 In our latest blog by @oteecodes, explore how this elegant feature enables flexible, reusable code that adapts to changing requirements effortlessly. #Polymorphism #Protocols #Clojure
link.medium.com/mFIImC4qyHb
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Important & horrifying thread - getting your purse stolen in a foreign land (UK) which carried your residence permit etc
And having no empathy or help from London police despite clear CCTV footage (including the thief’s car number).
@IndiaNetherland @metpoliceuk
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The hotel staff saw the CCTV footage of the thief and called the @metpoliceuk and we were told verbatim that they noted the case down but due to shortage of staff, they will not be able to come to visit
7/16
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My wife put her purse beside her, on the same chair that she was sitting on. Exactly one minute later, she was looking for my Kindle and noticed her purse was missing.
5/16
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The UK is often seen as the pinnacle of the first world. This is a story of how Indian tourists were looted of their identity, in the city of London in 2023.
1/16
Denver meets Tagore ❤️
Perfect song for the season! youtu.be/rLtz10iyQ9c
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Ping-pong: Using multiple Kafka consumers to process events (by @oteecodes)
otee.dev/2023/06/19/ping-pon…
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Applying for my 10th schengen visa for a 10 day business visit.
Grateful to @FranceinIndia @VFSGlobal for making it an easy process. Highlights of european efficiency:
- Paperless
- Digital & eco friendly
- Fair & equitable
- Least cumbersome
- Cheap & Fast
- Logical
🤌🤌
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I wrote something that was on my mind for a quite some time now. You can read it here - medium.com/@ramya.iyer/on-bu…
📢New Post! Recently, I resumed reading @martinkl's 'Designing Data-Intensive Applications'. This post summarises my understanding of LSM trees and SSTables. Do give it a read!
otee.dev/2023/04/17/log-stru…
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The most definitive work on the role of Governors in the Indian polity, releasing today 👇 👇
Congratulations @kevin_james9595 🎉 🎉 🎉
1/ Delighted to share that today is the launch of my second book, "Heads Held High: Salvaging State Governors for 21st Century India", co-authored with Shankar Narayanan and @somesortofpanda . It is a free-to-access e-book, and will be available here: lnkd.in/dd8UbX2R
Check out this great blog from @oteecodes, which details how to migrate an #app from #Heroku to #Googlecloud Platform powered by #YugabyteDB 🚀