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What I'm up to, right now.

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Backend engineer at Initializ. Writing Go and Elixir. Living between Kubernetes clusters and chai. This is the desk today. Inspired by nownownow.com. Probably stale the moment it's committed.

~ last updated 23 April 2026 · from Gurugram, India · coffee + kubernetes

§ 01 · work — what I'm shipping

Software Development Engineer · Initializ
Gurugram, India · Aug 2023 — Present · initializ.ai ↗
GoElixirPostgresRedisK8sAWSQdrantKafka
  • Shipping RAG Doc-Intelligence v2 — PDF → embeddings → Qdrant semantic Q&A, tuning hybrid search this sprint.
  • Owning the secret-management controller — K8s operator for 50+ tenant secrets; p99 down 67%.
  • Leading digital-lending integrations — NSDL / Aadhaar / PAN; onboarding time down 57%.
  • Running Postgres schema architecture — 50+ entities, indexed carefully.

§ 02 · learning

  • Elixir — GenStage & Broadwaybackpressure-aware pipelines for ingestion.
  • Elixir — OTP deeperGenServer, supervision trees, fault tolerance on the BEAM.
  • Postgres — logical replicationzero-downtime schema migrations.
  • LLM evalsragas + hand-labelled sets for retrieval quality.

§ 03 · reading

  • Designing Data-Intensive AppsMartin Kleppmann
  • Concurrency in GoKatherine Cox-Buday
  • The Pragmatic EngineerGergely Orosz · newsletter

§ 04 · listening

  • Lo-fi beatsthe default at 1am.
  • Signals & ThreadsJane Street engineering podcast.
  • Arijit, stillsome things don't update.

§ 05 · writing

systems design, backend architecture, and what I learn along the way — Go, Elixir, distributed systems.

› blog.ratnesh-maurya.com ↗

  • That little square does a lot — QR codes & UPI in plain English.
  • Go 1.26.2 upgrade playbook — security fixes & regressions.
  • cursor-claude-personas — 38 persona packs for AI coding.

§ 06 · elsewhere

  • JSONicGo-powered JSON parsing, formatting, validation. Sub-ms on real payloads.
  • mdconvertertext → Markdown with live preview.
  • npm-compareside-by-side npm package comparison.
  • Codeforces + LeetCodekeeping the fundamentals sharp.

§ 07 · not thinking about

front-end component librariesNFTsthe next JavaScript frameworkhot takes on twitter

~ if this is stale, poke me and I'll update it.