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Satyajit Roy

Hello there, I'm Satyajit Roy "If I have to do it twice, I’m writing a script. If I have to do it thrice, I’m building a platform."

Building scalable infrastructure by day, negotiating toddler uptime by night.

λ whoami --detailed
[STATUS] Currently fighting a race condition in my coffee machine...
👋 Connection established. Welcome to my local host.

I’m Satyajit Roy, better known as Roy. (Because 'Satyajit' is a beautiful name, but 'Roy' is just one syllable—optimized for low-latency communication).

SRE Architect Platform Mechanic YAML Wrangler

🦖 The Legacy Log (20+ Years of Debugging the Undebuggable)

I started my journey when "The Cloud"Other People's Computers [noun]A magical place where your credit card goes to die and your data goes to live in someone else's basement. was still just a weather pattern and "scaling"Horizontal Expansion [verb]Adding more problems until the original problem looks small by comparison. meant buying a bigger physical server. I’ve seen technology evolve from the manual labor of Solaris ZonesDigital Fossils [archaic]A time when we treated servers like precious pets instead of disposable cattle. to the automated chaos of KubernetesThe YAML Generator [tool]A system designed to turn simple ideas into 4,000 lines of configuration..

For two decades, I’ve been the person standing between high-performing systems and total entropy. Whether it's building resilient Platform SecurityThe Shield [role]Making sure the "admin/admin"The Hacker's Welcome Mat [phrase]A security strategy based on the hope that nobody checks the obvious. strategy dies a quiet, painful death. or squeezing peak performance out of NVIDIA GPU clustersThe Furnace [hardware]Where we burn money to make tensors move slightly faster., I thrive where the hardware starts to smoke. Currently, I'm specializing as an Infrastructure AlchemistLead into Gold [job]Turning messy data and unstable clusters into high-uptime gold., ensuring that your AI models have enough GPU juice to change the world without bankrupting the company.

My philosophy is simple: If a task takes more than two minutes, automate it. If a system wakes me up at 3 AM, fix it so it stays dead until Monday morning.

🛠️ My Current Stack (and Occasional Nemesis):

  • ⚙️ SRE & Platform Engineering: Building the bridges that developers cross to get to production.
  • ☁️ GPU & AI Orchestration: Babysitting H100s and making sure InfiniBandBlack Magic [networking]Networking so fast it violates the laws of physics and my patience. doesn't behave like dial-up.
  • 🏎️ Performance Optimization: Using RDMAShortcut [tech]Because the CPU kernel is just a slow middleman we don't need. to make data move at the speed of thought.
  • 🔐 DevSecOps: Baking security into the pipeline so it's not a burnt topping at the end.
  • 🚀 Mentorship: Teaching the next generation that 'Force Push'Digital Fire [verb]A desperate attempt to rewrite history that usually ends with a team-wide Slack notification. is a tool, not a lifestyle choice.

🌲 Career Git Graph

$ career log --all --graph --oneline --color
af5c170 deploy (HEAD -> master) finally understood that Rust's compiler is actually a protective parent
7ece5b8 feat realized the "Edge"The Frontier [tech]Computing so close to the user you can almost smell their search history. is just a server with a better view
c19feaa fix learned that "cloud native"Expensive by Design [concept]A methodology that ensures your cloud provider reaches their quarterly revenue targets. usually means "expensive native"
e18ce41 feat (branch/gpu-voodoo) optimized GPU utilization from 'expensive space heater' to 'inference machine'
bd36139 feat accepted that KubernetesThe YAML Orchestrator [tool]If you have one problem, use Kubernetes. Now you have a cluster of problems and a networking degree. is just a collection of very angry containers
9c8c9ca feat (branch/security) survived a security audit without losing my soul
0731214 merge Security is now a feature, not a ticket
f4dff42 fix fixed a bug that only appeared on Tuesdays during a full moon
f765b47 feat converted our infrastructure into GitOpsThe Single Source of Truth [method]A methodology where we pretend that everything in the repo is exactly what's in production, until it isn't. because clicking buttons is for amateurs
ea21f3c perf optimized my coffee consumption for maximum code output
8381d27 feat learned that "Done"MVP [state]The exact moment you can hand it off to support and go on vacation. is better than "Perfect"Mythical State [concept]A theoretical point in space-time that developers chase instead of shipping., but "Stable"The Holy Grail [state]A system that doesn't trigger the pager for at least 72 hours. is better than both
bd36139 merge successfully merged 15 sub-tasks without a single conflict (A Miracle)Statistical Anomaly [noun]An event so rare it's usually followed by a system-wide crash to restore cosmic balance.
c044a82 refactor deleted 5,000 lines of code. It was the best day of my life.
0731214 refactor simplified the architecture until a toddler could explain it
b894es5 init started with a Hello World, now we're here.
[STATUS] FINAL_DEPLOY_SUMMARY_SUCCESS
+++ 20 Years of PagerDuty Trauma (and counting) +++ ~2M Lines of Polyglot Code (YAML, Go, Rust) --- 0 Regrets (Memory leaks not shown) !!! 1 Executive Ego (Critical dependency)

🧠 The Mission Statement

This blog is my Digital GardenMind Dump [activity]Planting ideas and watching them grow into complex bugs.. It's a place where I document my battles with distributed systems and high-performance computing so that I (and you) don't have to fight the same war twice.

  1. Save Your Sanity: If my post about an obscure SegfaultMemory Oops [error]The digital version of forgetting why you walked into a room. saves you an hour of debugging at 2 AM, I've won.
  2. Future-Proofing Me: Because I know I’ll forget how I fixed that "impossible"Murphy's Law [state]A bug that technically shouldn't exist but is currently costing the company $10k an hour. networking issue by next quarter.
  3. Statically-Linked Sanity: A sanctuary for GolangGopher Magic [lang]Simple, fast, and remarkably good at hiding its lack of generics for years. and RustThe Enforcer [lang]A language that treats you like you're irresponsible, and it's usually right. lovers. You won't find any loosely-typed nightmares here.
  4. Ranting with Purpose: Sometimes the industry needs a reminder that HypeLinkedIn Fuel [noun]A shiny new technology that promises to solve everything but usually just adds another layer of YAML. isn't a replacement for ArchitecturePlan B [noun]Drawing boxes that look good in a slideshow until the first packet drop..

Feel free to explore. If you see me in a data center or a GitHub issue, don't be a stranger, unless you're bringing more YAML.

Coding GIF
"I convert CoffeeCore Fuel [food]The only thing that scales as well as my clusters. into Resilient InfrastructureJob Security [outcome]Systems so stable they make me look like I know what I'm doing. and deploy ConfidenceFallback Plan [strategy]What I tell the stakeholders while I'm actually praying to the demo gods. to production. My Cloud StrategyExpensive Art [noun]Modern architecture: Paying Jeff Bezos to host my mistakes. is 90% logic and 10% hoping the InfiniBand stays connected." — Roy
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