🧠 I'm a builder of resilient systems, a life long student of clean architecture, and a practitioner of production-first engineering. I thrive at the intersection of performance, scalability, and observability, and I love crafting tools that make systems smarter, teams faster, and nights on-call quieter. 😎
- ⚙️ Blazing-fast backends — built with a purpose, profiled with intent.
- 🔍 Observability toolchains — metrics, traces, logs, and dashboards that make noise obvious and silence safe.
- 🧱 Scalable microservices — designed for failure, built for scale.
- 🔐 Secure-by-default architectures — where dev and prod play nice.
- 🐍 Python — automating ops, building tools, APIs and scripting all the things.
- 🦀 Rust — for when performance and memory safety must shake hands.
- 🧭 Design for operability.
- 🔁 Think idempotent.
- 📊 Logs are the breadcrumbs of truth.
- 🧪 Metrics predict the future.
- 🔥 Traces tell the story.
- 🧯 Incidents are the sharpest retros.
- 🤝 Resilience is not a feature, it's a responsibility.
- 🛠️ Dev tools that help engineers ship, monitor, and sleep better.
- 📈 Observability frameworks, alerting pipelines, and trace visualizers.
- 🧰 Reliability tooling: chaos testing, synthetic checks, auto-remediation.
📧 santakd [at] gmail [dot] com
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I treat latency budgets like financial budgets — every millisecond counts.
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My favorite metric unit is requests per second per engineer per coffee ☕
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I believe in the philosophy: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t trust it.”
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Sometimes I write games in Python just for fun. Don’t judge me. 😄
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I tinker with Arduino, chasing that quiet thrill when the simplest sketch suddenly feels like magic.
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LEGOs fascinate me, the more complex the set, the more fun they are.
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I debug dreams at night — turning nightmares into seamless uptime, one log line at a time. 💤🛠️
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Scaling systems is my superpower; I turn monoliths into microservices faster than you can say "Kubernetes." 🚀
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I collect Hot Wheels and Dinky cars — because performance isn’t just for services, it's for die-cast too. 🏎️🔥
Who knew tiny engines could teach so much about speed?
⚡️ “Engineering excellence is not how fast we build, but how long what we build lasts in production.”
⚡️ "Embrace stillness as power, foresight as a weapon, and resilience as a way of life."
🖖 Cheers and keep your services fast, observable, and boring in all the right ways.