Technical Journal
Deep-dives into systems engineering
The Startup Equity: VC Mechanics, SAFE Notes, Cap Tables & Indian Tax Traps
A complete guide to startup equity for software engineers — how VC funds work, what SAFE notes actually do to your ownership, the 10 equity traps that destroy engineer payouts, and the Indian tax obligations nobody warns you about.
How I Cut Our Multi-Cloud Bill by 46%: A $$/Month Infrastructure Post-Mortem
A deep-dive into how a distributed bot army silently inflated our AWS, GCP, and MongoDB Atlas bills — and the systematic audit that uncovered ₹9,847/month in recoverable waste across WAF, idle Cloud Run containers, and Atlas M10 over-provisioning.
Inside the 18-Minute Hack That Breached GitHub's Internal Vault
An in-depth technical postmortem of how TeamPCP (UNC6780) weaponized a trusted VS Code extension to steal 3,800 GitHub internal repositories: the Shai-Hulud worm, orphaned-commit C2, and the death of IDE trust.
Defending API Gateways with a Multi-Tiered IP-Aware Rate Limiter
How we designed a three-tier OTP rate-limiting architecture and user-agent classifier to block 2,000+ daily malicious botnet requests.
Scaling a Fault-Tolerant LLM Translation Pipeline on Zero Budget
How we engineered a parallelized, rate-limit resilient pediatric localization pipeline across 23 Google Cloud projects using a custom JSON-repair state-machine lexer.
Architecting an ACID-Compliant Financial Ledger with MongoDB Transactions
How we engineered a secure, transaction-isolated consultant escrow engine with MongoDB sessions, a 48-hour clinical hold buffer, and automated payout sweeps.