hi 👋   i'm

Pradip Caulagi.

Developer and platform engineer. I build & fix things in production — distributed systems, idiomatic code, and a calm pager.

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01 / Profile

A developer who lives close to the production floor.

currently into Kubernetes, Rust, WASM & Nix
Spec sheet
Role Platform / Systems Developer
Focus Distributed systems · Production reliability
Track Startups → mid-size → large
Languages
python go rust sql
Infra
kubernetes terraform gcp prometheus grafana
I build
gRPC services backend APIs platforms internal tools
02 / In production

I build and I fix — usually on the same day.

Build

Backends that hold up under load.

  • Designing and shipping backend APIs and gRPC services.
  • Idiomatic, well-tested code — reviewed by humans, exercised by CI.
  • Internal platforms that get out of developers' way.
  • Contributing back to the open-source projects I depend on.
Operate

A calm pager, a quiet on-call.

  • Running production systems on Kubernetes across cloud providers.
  • Diagnosing the gnarly stuff — latency, throughput, weird tail behaviour.
  • Helping teammates daily: code review, design review, the occasional rubber duck.
  • Turning incidents into runbooks, alerts, and tests so they don't come back.
03 / Field manual

A platform engineer's emotional dashboard.

01/06 OK
deploy succeeded
02/06 ???
this stack trace makes no sense
03/06 RCA
told you the cache was the problem
04/06 WTF
who pushed to main?
05/06 YOLO
shipped on a friday
06/06 P1
drafting the post-mortem
Photos Magnus Andersen · @magnusyeah
04 / Outside the terminal

When the laptop closes.

Family Girlfriend & two kids.

The most distributed system I help maintain.

Game Chess.

I watch and play. Tactics over openings, endgames over both.

Listening Indian classical.

Hindustani and Carnatic both. Ask me what to start with.

Lately Long walks.

Found in 2026. Best debugging tool I've added in years.

05 / Say hi

Happy to hear from you.

Roles, side projects, ragas, a good chess puzzle — all welcome. Easiest is email. If you'd rather poke around first, I'm on the usual places.

GitHub @caulagi Mastodon @[email protected] LinkedIn in/pradipcaulagi Blog blog.caulagi.com
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