About

Hi, I’m Pranshu Raj, a backend engineer and systems thinker.

I use this space to write about building scalable systems, working with real-time infrastructure, and making tools that help me (and hopefully others) think and work better.

Recently started contributing to open source, through Grafana Mimir and DBOS, it’s been fascinating to learn how products with large communities and high adoption work, and I’d like to keep working in those areas, to learn more about this aspect as well as tech and standards they adopt which would make me a better engineer.

I tinker with real-time systems, build tools to offload thinking, and chase the balance between speed, simplicity, and usefulness.

What You’ll Find Here

• Tech deep dives - performance tuning, real-time systems, backend tricks.
• Build logs - documenting how I approach and ship personal projects.
• Tools & automations - things I build to reduce friction in life and work.
• Ideas & reflections - learning in public, experimenting with structure and focus.

About This Site

This blog is built using Astro, styled with TailwindCSS, and deployed via Cloudflare Pages. I picked this stack to keep things fast, simple, and distraction-free.

Check out my GitHub or reach out on LinkedIn, Email or Twitter.

Stay curious.