Ashwin R

blog.byash.in — where I write things that don’t fit in tweets

Now: Building distributed financial systems at Citi, working with Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, IBM MQ, and cloud-native infrastructure.

Before: Built identity and access management systems at Zoho, optimized backend performance, and learned that production has a very good memory.

I like building things that scale, understanding systems from first principles, and debugging things that shouldn't be broken in the first place.

Things I’ve Built

National Student Identity Platform: A digital identity platform built for the Smart India Hackathon — and a national-level problem worth solving.
Cloud-Native Event Platform: Event registration, accommodation, finance, and operations workflows running on Google Cloud.
AI Infrastructure: Local LLM environments, remote diagnostics, and model evaluation workflows built around open-source AI tooling.

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Languages: Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL

Backend: Spring Boot, REST APIs, Microservices, Kafka, IBM MQ

Infrastructure: Google Cloud, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Jenkins, CI/CD

Data & Systems: Oracle, DB2, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Distributed Systems

This page is under 14kB when compressed, which means it fits within the initial TCP slow start window .

No CSS frameworks, no JavaScript bloat, and no trackers. Just raw HTML, a pinch of JavaScript, and a lot of intent.

Also: This site sets smart caching and security headers:

Cache-Control: immutable — lets browsers skip revalidating static assets for 1 day because this page rarely changes.
Strict-Transport-Security — forces HTTPS across all visits and subdomains.
Permissions-Policy — disables access to things I don't use, like geolocation, camera, and microphone.

Because good defaults matter, even in static sites.

This page has no CSS. Not because I can’t — but because I choose not to.

Built with a keyboard, caffeine, and the "less is more" philosophy.