I build software wherever I happen to be, though Bengaluru keeps getting me back. Something about the air there, the evening rain that turns up uninvited, and the fact that nobody seems to mind.

Otherwise, I’m moving. Every so often that means finding myself on a shaky, questionable local bus headed nowhere in particular.

There’s writing. Painting too. Someday, films. A guitar has followed me around since Class Four, which is not the same thing as knowing how to play it. They say you have to be bad at something for a while before you’re not. I’m still conducting the first half of that experiment. Drums remain a future mistake.

I cook, mostly because the air fryer made competence look easy. Coffee black, like the hole in space. Nothing escapes it. Not light. Not me.

Then there are books, poems, and considerably more philosophy than is probably useful.

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
• A City I so Loved
• Accepting God
• Ballad of Canker Sores
• Easy Crontab with Celery-Beat
• Functional Error Handling in Flutter
• HelgoLand
• Historical Records in Django
• Holy Mother
• In the Hours of Meditation
• Proof of God
• Rails really packs a punch
• Setting up Django with Docker Compose & OrbStack
• Shobashona's Boti
• The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
• Why choose Django as a startup?
• Why do we suffer?
• Why I chose Vim?
• Writing a scheduler using Django and CeleryBeat, CronTab
• Rails 8 Kamal 2 on Digital Ocean with Managed DB
• Remote Office Not Required
• Raspberry Pi 4 Hotspot

Books

• The Shelf - my reading log from 2025 onwards: what's open, what's finished, and how far along I honestly am

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
• Krishna Das introduced to me by Sattu, my closest friend, confidant, and fellow lover of Shiva
• Parvaaz Kashmiri and Urdu psych rock, from Bengaluru
  • Start with Baran, then Kun, then Na Gul Na Gulistan
• The Local Train - Vaaqif and Aalas Ka Pedh, both albums, start to finish
• George Harrison - All Things Must Pass, and While My Guitar Gently Weeps, which I built a whole playlist around
• The Beatles Norwegian Wood especially
• Jeff Buckley just listen to Grace
• Chris Cornell that voice. RIP
• Audioslave Chris Cornell with Tom Morello on guitar, what more do you want
• Chevelle if you like Breaking Benjamin, you will like Chevelle
• Foxy Shazam criminally underrated, go listen
• Muse - The Wow! Signal
• Woodkid - The Golden Age
• Nick Johnston - Child of Bliss, instrumental guitar at its best
• Anthony Vincent Ten Second Songs, look him up on YouTube
• Keane - Cause and Effect, and Somewhere Only We Know, which never gets old
• David Bowie Starman, Heroes, Space Oddity, pick any one, you cannot go wrong
• Yeat Twizzy Rich is on repeat right now, go listen
• Some rap as well: Kendrick Lamar, Jeezy, Kanye West, Fetty Wap
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse both soundtracks, Daniel Pemberton's score and Metro Boomin's album, go listen

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.

---