Hi, I'm Ashis Kar.
I'm a software engineer who gets excited about the invisible infrastructure that powers the internet.
Work Philosophy
I believe the best code is the kind you never have to think about after it's deployed.
For the last decade, I've moved from fixing broken systems at 3 AM to designing systems that don't break in the first place.
I am not a "move fast and break things" engineer. I am a "move deliberately and build things that last" engineer.
I thrive in Deep Work. I prefer long stretches of uninterrupted focus where I can mentally model a distributed system, anticipate its failure modes, and design the resilience right into the foundation.
What I'm Exploring
I believe expertise is a moving target. Currently, I am pulling at the threads of:
- Systems for AI: How do we build the boring, reliable plumbing required to serve volatile LLMs at scale?
- Resilient Design: Moving beyond "preventing failure" to "embracing failure" as a state of the system.
- Slow Tech: Why boring technologies (like PostgreSQL and plain Python) often beat shiny new tools in the long run.
📚 On My Bookshelf
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman