My Journey
From writing my first loop in 2019 to shipping production systems that handle real users — these are the milestones that shaped how I think about building software.
Timeline
8 milestonesStarted Learning to Code
Picked up Python and C during my BCA. Fell down the programming rabbit hole and never looked back — first loops, first bugs, first 'it works' moment.
Started Learning to Code
Picked up Python and C during my BCA. Fell down the programming rabbit hole and never looked back — first loops, first bugs, first 'it works' moment.
Graduated BCA
@ Chandigarh UniversityGraduated with a 7.83 CGPA and a fascination for distributed systems. Spent the final year deep in data structures, networking fundamentals, and late-night side projects.
- ›Graduated with 7.83 CGPA across 6 semesters
- ›Capstone project: distributed task queue in Python
- ›Deep-dived into networking, OS internals, and DBMS concepts
Graduated BCA
@ Chandigarh UniversityGraduated with a 7.83 CGPA and a fascination for distributed systems. Spent the final year deep in data structures, networking fundamentals, and late-night side projects.
- ›Graduated with 7.83 CGPA across 6 semesters
- ›Capstone project: distributed task queue in Python
- ›Deep-dived into networking, OS internals, and DBMS concepts
Built First Production Go API
Shipped a Go REST API in a real project — a turning point from tutorial-land to systems that handle actual traffic. Learned more from debugging production than any course.
Built First Production Go API
Shipped a Go REST API in a real project — a turning point from tutorial-land to systems that handle actual traffic. Learned more from debugging production than any course.
Joined Skipp as Backend Engineer
@ SkippFirst full-time engineering role at an early-stage startup. Responsible for designing the backend architecture from scratch — no legacy code, no guardrails, full ownership.
- ›Designed and built the JWT auth service from zero — now handles all user sessions
- ›Set up go.work monorepo managing 3 independent microservices
- ›Provisioned full dual-cloud infra: GCP Compute Engine + AWS S3/CloudFront
Joined Skipp as Backend Engineer
@ SkippFirst full-time engineering role at an early-stage startup. Responsible for designing the backend architecture from scratch — no legacy code, no guardrails, full ownership.
- ›Designed and built the JWT auth service from zero — now handles all user sessions
- ›Set up go.work monorepo managing 3 independent microservices
- ›Provisioned full dual-cloud infra: GCP Compute Engine + AWS S3/CloudFront
Shipped Dual-Cloud GCP + AWS Infrastructure
@ SkippProvisioned the full production infrastructure: GCP Compute Engine for the API, AWS S3 + CloudFront for assets, GitHub Actions CI/CD, systemd process management, and Nginx reverse proxy.
Shipped Dual-Cloud GCP + AWS Infrastructure
@ SkippProvisioned the full production infrastructure: GCP Compute Engine for the API, AWS S3 + CloudFront for assets, GitHub Actions CI/CD, systemd process management, and Nginx reverse proxy.
Open Sourced goauth-kit
Extracted the JWT auth middleware from Skipp's codebase and published it as a standalone Go library. Redis-backed token revocation, refresh rotation, and Gin middleware in one package.
Open Sourced goauth-kit
Extracted the JWT auth middleware from Skipp's codebase and published it as a standalone Go library. Redis-backed token revocation, refresh rotation, and Gin middleware in one package.
Shipped Skipp Mobile App
@ SkippBuilt the React Native app from zero to production — Expo Router for navigation, EAS Build for both Android and iOS, GitHub Actions for automated builds and OTA updates.
Shipped Skipp Mobile App
@ SkippBuilt the React Native app from zero to production — Expo Router for navigation, EAS Build for both Android and iOS, GitHub Actions for automated builds and OTA updates.
Now — Building & Shipping at Skipp
@ SkippStill at the helm. Owning the full stack from Go microservices to React dashboards. Writing about what I build. Always looking for the next hard problem worth solving.
- ›Maintaining 3 production services across GCP and AWS
- ›Writing technical posts on Go, DevOps, and system design
- ›Actively open-sourcing tools extracted from production
Now — Building & Shipping at Skipp
@ SkippStill at the helm. Owning the full stack from Go microservices to React dashboards. Writing about what I build. Always looking for the next hard problem worth solving.
- ›Maintaining 3 production services across GCP and AWS
- ›Writing technical posts on Go, DevOps, and system design
- ›Actively open-sourcing tools extracted from production