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Learning in public, a few sentences at a time. Unpolished on purpose — this is the working record, not the highlight reel.

July 2026

2026-07-14

Rebuilt my site from scratch — not a portfolio, a place to think in public. First trace is up: what actually happens to a packet inside a Kubernetes node.

July 2026

Started treating personal branding as an engineering problem — how I present, and a long-term LinkedIn plan for the Rotaract club instead of a pile of random event posts. Not my usual territory, but worth getting right.

June 2026

June 2026 · networking

Went deep on Kubernetes and Linux networking — packets, namespaces, veth pairs, conntrack — instead of just running kubectl and hoping. Bought a VPS and started learning what deployment looks like beyond a local cluster.

June 2026 · rotaract platform

Redesigned the Rotaract platform's architecture: finance, attendance, communications, projects, an admin portal, and member-portal improvements. The finance and mailbox systems were the parts that fought back the hardest.