I started out engineering structures you could touch. A diploma in Civil Engineering in Bishnupur, West Bengal — load paths, tolerances, foundations that have to hold for fifty years. Then I found systems that carry more weight than any bridge I could have drawn, and I never went back.
The vocabulary transferred perfectly. Blueprints became Terraform. Load-bearing became load balancing. Factor of safety became replica count. I pivoted into Computer Science, finished with an 8.93 CGPA, and started building the kind of architecture you cannot photograph.
Today I design highly available environments on Google Cloud — GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Memorystore — and I have taken monoliths apart and rebuilt them cloud-native for a 40% cut in run cost. I write Terraform because a system you cannot recreate from a file is not a system, it is a liability.
And when the terminal closes, I run Linux workshops for juniors and peers. Every engineer I have learned from gave their time away freely. That debt only settles one direction.
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