Hi, I'm Sandjiv

(an apparently rare name given that i got that domain name)

I'm a Backend dev

The best backend dev this side of wherever we are /s

Who?

Ruby on rails backend dev with an interest in learning new things and before deploying boring tech in production

Although i like nothing more than discussing tradeoffs and figuring out the right questions, production code has only 2 objectives: Delivering value and being kind to whoever will look at it next (sadly in that order)

Experience

a3f1c2e tag: family-computer init: int main(void) year: 2005 Following obscure C courses on the internet to code terminal programs that would ask for your age and make you guess a number between 0 and 100
d8b91a4 tag: fresh out of schoolhack: fake it until you make it year: 2016 Lied to a recruiter about having a portfolio Scrambled to understand HTML/CSS in a night Did 2 horrible pages, "hosted" them on Dropbox Sent them the link on my way to the Dunning-Kruger peak
e1a44f9 tag: drawbotics feat: somehow get hired as an intern year: 2016 Still can't believe that worked
7c2e0f1 tag: drawbotics chore: find footing as backend dev year: 2016 Imposter syndrome kicking in at least i'm not in charge of anything
b04ee9a tag: drawbotics/mosaic feat: promoted to lead backend dev year: 2019 Oh no
5fa30c8 tag: ring-twice refactor: trade b2b for b2c year: 2023 i wonder if b2c problematics are as interesting as the b2b ones
9c4e1d2 HEAD -> main, tag: ring-twice feat: scaling things, having fun year: 2026 Ok this is actually pretty fun let's see how far i can scale this thing

Currently Figuring Out

getting there

Self hosting

Hosting some utilities like a vpn or a music server on a raspberry pi

Building Learning
dipping toes

Cloudflare

Cloudflare tunnels/workers/DNS management

Media
dipping toes

The Yakuza game series

Slowly making my way through the entire series (thank gabe for the steamdeck)

Media
good enough

Lazyvim Config

Giving in to the dark side (maybe) so i can have a full terminal workflow

Tools

or don't, i'm not your dad