2025: Year in Review
It’s that time of the year again. I love this annual tradition of writing my year-in-review post primarily for taking...
7 mins read Dec 30, 20242024: Year in Review
There’s this unsettling feeling as my fingers type the keyboard knowing this is the only post I have for the...
5 mins read Dec 30, 20232023: Year in Review
It is that time of the year again. I love this annual tradition of writing a year-in-review post primarily for...
6 mins read Jun 12, 2023Job Crafting: What I've learned about this as an IC in an engineering role
Over the last year, I’ve had a few conversations with friends and colleagues in the industry with one overarching common...
6 mins read Dec 31, 20222022: Year in Review
I appreciate and love the annual tradition of writing a year-in-review post primarily for two reasons- Taking an inventory of...
6 mins read Oct 06, 2022I'm starting a newsletter
I am so excited to introduce my weekly newsletter on Substack- The Weekly Sync. The primary purpose of this is...
1 min read Jul 19, 2022Onsites for remote teams
“I am so glad to not have to be staring at a computer all day…” That’s one of the sentiments...
7 mins read Jun 09, 2022Next @ Datadog
$ pwd /Datadog/SecurityEngineering I am a month into my new role at Datadog as a Security Engineer. Now is a...
2 mins read May 06, 2022Leaving Intel
Today is my last day at Intel. I began my chapter 1 as an intern in 2015, chapter 2 in...
1 min read Dec 31, 20212021: Year in Review
Almost a wrap to 2021 and this is my second ‘Year in Review’ post since starting my blog last year!...
3 mins read Nov 30, 2021Writing Terrible Documentation
Almost every engineering culture these days somewhat hinges on documentation. It serves as means of effective knowledge sharing, communicating key...
3 mins read Oct 29, 2021Lateral Career Moves
A few months ago, I was having a career conversation with a Software Engineer friend of mine. She mentioned how...
5 mins read Oct 22, 2021Why I write
Early into the pandemic in 2020, I started my blog as a creative outlet. For me, writing started as an...
5 mins read Aug 03, 2021The fascinating world of Infrastructure
I’ve been dabbling with infrastructures in my current role where I realized how vast and fascinating the current infrastructure space...
6 mins read Mar 30, 2021The evolution of Infrastructure as code
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the automation approach to defining, provisioning, configuring, and managing infrastructures. If you are developing services...
15 mins read Dec 23, 20202020: Year in Review
We are about to wrap up a year that will be known for it’s numerous expected and unexpected events. I...
6 mins read Nov 30, 2020Owning your onboarding (specially in remote work)
Check out the much polished version I wrote on LeadDev Career moves like starting a new role are challenging, can...
8 mins read Oct 20, 2020The tech tribe of mentors
“A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.” — Oprah Winfrey 
A mentor is...
Understanding web API security
By 2021, 90% of web-enabled applications will have more surface area for attack in the form of exposed APIs rather...
12 mins read Aug 03, 2020The first steps to successful web API design
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. -Steve Jobs APIs (application...
10 mins read Jul 20, 2020Why Self-Compassion is crucial for professional growth
We all have some idea of what professional growth means for us and the factors that play a role in...
6 mins read Jun 29, 2020The 'Tell me about Yourself' interview question
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ― Oscar Wilde Interviewing is a skill. Your ability to interact with...
Under the hood of a data-intensive application
Data is one of the most important assets right now and it is established that ‘The Future is Data-Driven’. 
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Hello World !!!
“You can make anything by writing.” –C.S. Lewis Being in tech, one thing was very evident to me early on....
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