Hey, I'm Om! 👋

I build things that scale, break, and (hopefully) scale again

Currently crafting distributed systems • Obsessed with performance • Secretly love debugging production fires 🔥

📍 Abu Dhabi, UAE • 📧 [email protected]

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🛠 What I'm building

Right now: Tinkering with GenAI agents that actually understand compliance rules (spoiler: it's harder than it looks)

Always: Systems that don't fall over when traffic spikes happen at 3 AM

For fun: Open source tools that make other developers' lives slightly less miserable

🧠 Things I think about

$ grep -r "why is this so slow" ~/brain/
→ Database indexes (or lack thereof)
→ N+1 queries hiding in plain sight  
→ That microservice that somehow became a monolith
→ Why Kubernetes makes simple things complicated
→ Whether this cache invalidation will actually work

⚡ My Stack (aka tools that don't make me cry)

Languages: Java, Python, Go, JavaScript
          # C++ when I'm feeling masochistic

Cloud: AWS (the parts that actually work)
       Kubernetes (love-hate relationship)
       
Databases: PostgreSQL (reliable friend)
           Redis (fast friend) 
           DynamoDB (expensive friend)

Daily Drivers: Spring Boot, FastAPI, Kafka
               Docker, Terraform, way too much YAML

🎯 Recent Wins

🚀 Built a document processing pipeline that actually understands invoices (99.5% accuracy, take that OCR!)

⚡ Optimized some database queries from "grab coffee while it loads" to "blink and you'll miss it"

🤖 Created a GenAI assistant that writes better tickets than most humans (sorry, humans)

🔧 Open sourced some pipeline tools that 150+ teams now use (and hopefully don't curse at)

📚 Learning Corner

Currently reading: System design papers (yes, for fun)
Recently tried: Rust (still fighting the borrow checker)
Next up: WebAssembly (because why not?)

Fun fact: I once reduced AWS costs by 45% and felt like a financial wizard for a week.

🎮 When not coding

• Mentoring engineers who are way smarter than me
• Writing posts that somehow reached 80k+ people (still not sure how)
• Explaining why "it works on my machine" isn't a deployment strategy
• Collecting passport stamps (14 countries and counting, mostly for the WiFi speed comparisons)

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💬 Let's chat!

Love talking about system design, performance optimization, or why your distributed system is probably more distributed than it needs to be

Always up for: Technical discussions, code reviews, or helping debug that thing that works everywhere except production

PS: If you're looking for my resume, it's probably on LinkedIn like everyone else's 😄