Building software, products, and small experiments. My work spans startup engineering, backend systems, internal tools, and independent projects. Working remotely from different places, with Bengaluru as a city I return to from time to time. Outside code, I love good books and poems, philosophy, occasional writing, filmmaking, proper meals, and strong coffee.

Life is short; opportunity fleeting; experiment perilous; judgement flawed.
— Hippocrates

Gigs & Projects

• Bitsila ONDC SaaS - Founding Engineer
• Opmaint - Engineering Head
• PacketMan - Open Source Postman Alternative
• Service Recommender
• Sales Predictor - ML based sales prediction
• Dell Internship - interned here in my 5th semester of college.
• Reddit2Spotify a simple script which creates you playlists from songs recommended in Reddit comment section, for example this.
• FlutterCRUDInterface - a flutter boilerplate generator

Experiments

• Hotspot Generation Scripts boot for Rpi4
• Varnamala - A duolingo clone for making language learning more accessible
• falcon-mini software to make a Rpi into a talking robot, which you can plug into toys

Writing

• Articles here (RSS)
• Medium
  • Django & DRF Flexibility
  • Django Lifecycle Hooks
  • MySQL on Manjaro - this one helped few people
• A Few Fav Tech Helpers - these are here as well as medium
  • Easy Crontab with Celery-Beat
  • Setting up Django with Docker Compose & OrbStack
  • Historical Records in Django
  • Why I chose Vim? - My journey from despising Vim in my first year of college to crowning it as the ultimate editor
  • Writing a scheduler using Django/DRF
  • Why Choose Django as a Startup?
  • Rails really packs a punch — I'm a huge Django enthusiast myself, but I've got to admit, Rails offers a level of comprehensiveness that Django just doesn't match. The only thing keeping me anchored to Django is my preference for Python over DHH Lang (also known as Ruby)

Essays

• How to Manage Dependencies in Flutter Without a Framework
• Beyond pg_dump: A Simple Guide to PostgreSQL Point-in-Time Recovery
• How to Embed Native UI in Flutter The Simple Way
• A Simple Workflow for Database Migrations in Git
• A Simpler Way to Boost Flutter Performance with Dart FFI
• Hetzner Load Balancers vs. a Simple HAProxy Setup
• A Simple Way to Manage Rails Secrets
• A Simple Guide to Django REST Framework Serializers
• When to Use Django Signals (and When to Avoid Them)
• The Simple Magic of SSH Port Forwarding
• Adding Storage on Hetzner: Volumes vs Storage Boxes
• A Simple Start to Testing in Django
• The Job Scorecard
• A Simple Guide to PostgreSQL Index Types
• A Simple Pattern for Scalable Flutter UI
• A Simple Guide to Systemd for Developers
• The Hardest Conversation
• A Simple Reverse Proxy for Your Hetzner Server
• How to Stop Useless Widget Rebuilds in Flutter
• How to Upgrade a Legacy Rails Application
• The Founder's Bottleneck
• The Customer Conversation That Builds Your Product
• Keeping Your Flutter UI Smooth with Isolates
• A Simple Pattern for Django Settings
• Building Modern Frontends Without a JavaScript Framework
• The First 30 Days: A Simple Onboarding Plan
• Using Hetzner's Free Firewall Instead of UFW
• The Source of Unhappiness Is a Simple Mistake
• Rethinking Rails Views with ViewComponents
• How to Pay Your First Ten Employees
• Simple Encrypted Backups on Hetzner with Restic
• The Easiest Way to Find and Fix N+1 Queries in Rails
• Action Without Attachment
• Securing Your New Hetzner Server: The First Hour
• The Practice of the Unattached Observer
• Hetzner Private Networking The Simple Way
• Start Every Django Project with a Custom User Model
• A Simple Guide to Django Middleware
• Debugging Connections with Simple Linux Tools
• When Your Django App Gets Too Big
• Finding Your Dharma Is Not a Treasure Hunt
• How to Think About Caching in Rails
• Finding the Self by Subtraction
• Moving a Big Database Without Breaking Things
• The Mind's Three Modes
• The One Page Product Spec
• The Three Signs You Aren't Ready to Hire
• Why Your Rails Tests Are Slow
• The Illusion of Being the Doer
• The Minimalist Hiring Loop
• Stop Stashing: A Better Git Workflow with Worktrees
• Git's Magic Undo Button: Recovering Lost Commits
• A Simple Guide to PostgreSQL EXPLAIN ANALYZE
• Find Bugs Fast with Git Bisect
• Hetzner Cloud vs Dedicated: A Guide to Saving Money
• When Rails Models Get Too Big
• A Simple Workflow for Clean Git History
• A Practical Guide to PostgreSQL Backups
• Deciding What to Build Next
• Calling Native Code from Flutter Is Easier Than You Think
• Why Most Rails Apps Get Background Jobs Wrong
• A Simple Fix for Slow Django Queries
• Build Fast Lists in Flutter
• Your First Engineer

Favorite Books

• 2023
• 2024
• 2025
• 2026

Social

• Github
• StackOverflow
• rishi.banerjee1009deletethisifyourenotarobot@gmailthisaswell.com

Public appearance

• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - I was the pharoah

Music Taste

This is the collection where I list the ones that "I" find unconventional. Which means; Michael, Elvis, Coldplay and many more of the obvious artists make the list.

• Breaking Benjamin
  • Favorite Album Phobia
• Foo Fighters go buy some merch
  • Favorite Album Wasting Light
  • Sonic Highways is surreal
• RTJ - Run the Jewels
  • Truth be told, I got hooked with Legend has It from Black Panther, then I heard A Report to the Shareholders 4 years later, paving the way for me to explore all the albums by RTJ, and I love each and every one of them
• Danzig - Listen to this song
• The Black Album
• B.B. King is always gonna make the list :)
• Sound City - Reel to Reel you need to listen to this album, if born as a mortal on this mortal earth, for the love of God!
• Porcupine Tree this band requires so much more attention, Steven Wilson is literally a living God of Music. A college senior recommended this to me, and I am thankful to her wherever she is!
• Age of Aquarius
• Hulo a really good indie artist
• Radiohead Erlich Bachman can hate them, I can't
• Ozzy Osbourne RIP
• Killer Mike taken out of RTJ
• Danzig "MOTHER"
• Alter Bridge Great for emotional gym workouts

About this page

This page consists of only two resources: the HTML and the picture.
The ‘appearing’ effect is achieved using the CSS keyframes feature, orchestrated by a compile-time Dart script.

This site is based on Filiph Hráček's original work on filiph/filiphnet, a minimalist, Markdown-first personal site generator.
I've forked and extended it with my own customizations — but the core elegance of the setup is very much thanks to Filiph's original vision and engineering.

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