Staff Engineer · Tech Lead at Sonatype.
I build the infrastructure developers ship software on. Twelve years in — currently leading Nexus Repository at Sonatype, where roughly 70% of the Fortune 100 move their artifacts. These days: OCI 1.1 compliance, AI/ML model management, and the occasional Apache patch when a bug lands in my path.
Blue Cross of Hyderabad
Volunteer · Animal welfare
Transport, cleanup, late-night vet runs when home.
Daily drivers.
Years shipping
Since 2013
Fortune 100 on Nexus
Artifacts moved safely
Engineers mentored + shipped-to
Across Hyderabad & OSS
What I believe, in four sentences.
Good infrastructure disappears. The developers shipping on top of it shouldn’t have to think about the tires — only the road. My job is to keep that illusion honest at a scale most people never see up close. When I find the road broken in an upstream Apache project, I send the patch myself.
02 · Selected Work
One is the job. The other is the reason the job keeps its shape.
03 · Career
2022 — Present
Staff Engineer & Tech Lead
Leading Nexus Repository — the artifact platform roughly 70% of the Fortune 100 ship software through.
2019 — 2022
Senior Software Engineer
Worked on LendingTree's loan-processing pipeline. Services handled millions of applications a month. Learned what real throughput looks like — and what breaks first when it isn't there.
2017 — 2019
Senior Software Engineer
Built enterprise fintech services from Hyderabad. Shipped the kind of quiet back-office systems that move real money and never make a demo reel.
2015 — 2017
Senior Software Engineer
Built healthcare software used by clinicians every day. Which is how I learned that "offline-first" is not a feature — it's a promise you make to someone in a basement with bad Wi-Fi.
2013 — 2015
Apprentice → Trainee → Junior Developer
Started here. Learned version control, code review, and the particular shape of humility that comes from breaking production in your first month.
04 · Writing
Notes on the systems I work on, the mistakes I keep making, and the occasional opinion I’m willing to defend in public.
Essays here
Also on Medium
05 · Field Notes
I contribute upstream to Apache projects whose quirks I hit at work — usually Maven and the artifact-resolution side of things. Nothing heroic. A diff here when the error message lies, a test there for an edge case nobody wrote. The point is small and continuous, not a GitHub-profile performance.
Most weekends I’m in a Swift-Hyderabad session, reviewing a résumé or a pull request for someone a few years behind where I am. It’s the cheapest way to stay honest about what “junior” actually means, and the fastest way to remember what I didn’t know a decade ago.
I volunteer with Blue Cross of Hyderabad when I’m home. Transport, cleanup, the occasional 2 a.m. ride to a vet. It is not glamorous, and that is exactly the point.
Certified in adult and paediatric CPR through the National CPR Foundation. I hope to never need it. I recommend everyone learn it anyway.
Currently working through A Philosophy of Software Design, re-reading Paul Graham’s essays for the fifth time, and picking at Annie Dillard when code doesn’t scratch the itch.
06 · Contact
If any of this was worth your time, I’d like to hear from you.
Also on GitHub, LinkedIn, and Medium — the usual places, the usual handles.
