<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Raj Das - Staff Software Engineer | Cloud Native &amp; Chaos Engineering on Raj Das</title><link>https://rajdas.in/</link><description>Recent content in Raj Das - Staff Software Engineer | Cloud Native &amp; Chaos Engineering on Raj Das</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><atom:link href="https://rajdas.in/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>About</title><link>https://rajdas.in/docs/about/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://rajdas.in/docs/about/</guid><description>&lt;h1 id="about-me"&gt;About Me&lt;a class="anchor" href="#about-me"&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hey there! I&amp;rsquo;m Raj 👋&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="who-am-i"&gt;Who Am I?&lt;a class="anchor" href="#who-am-i"&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m an &lt;strong&gt;accomplished Staff Software Engineer&lt;/strong&gt; specializing in the cloud-native ecosystem. With over 5 years of experience—spanning from &lt;strong&gt;Founding Engineer&lt;/strong&gt; at a startup to &lt;strong&gt;Staff Lead&lt;/strong&gt; at Harness—I focus on building resilient, scalable backend architectures and driving the future of Chaos Engineering and AI-driven SRE.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="professional-experience"&gt;Professional Experience&lt;a class="anchor" href="#professional-experience"&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h3 id="harness"&gt;Harness&lt;a class="anchor" href="#harness"&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Staff Software Engineer&lt;/strong&gt; | &lt;em&gt;May 2023 - Present&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Leading the technical vision for &lt;strong&gt;AI SRE (Incident Response)&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Platform Engineering&lt;/strong&gt; initiatives.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Uses</title><link>https://rajdas.in/docs/uses/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://rajdas.in/docs/uses/</guid><description>&lt;h1 id="uses"&gt;Uses&lt;a class="anchor" href="#uses"&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tools and setup I use daily for engineering and open-source leadership.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="hardware"&gt;Hardware&lt;a class="anchor" href="#hardware"&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Laptop&lt;/strong&gt;: MacBook Pro (M-Series)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Display&lt;/strong&gt;: Built-in Liquid Retina XDR (Single-screen minimalist)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Peripherals&lt;/strong&gt;: Using the built-in Force Touch trackpad and Magic Keyboard exclusively.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="software"&gt;Software&lt;a class="anchor" href="#software"&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h3 id="development"&gt;Development&lt;a class="anchor" href="#development"&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editors&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/"&gt;IntelliJ IDEA&lt;/a&gt; (Primary for Go/Backend), &lt;a href="https://code.visualstudio.com/"&gt;VS Code&lt;/a&gt; (Lightweight editing/Markdown).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Terminal&lt;/strong&gt;: macOS Terminal with &lt;a href="https://ohmyz.sh/"&gt;Oh My Zsh&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;API Tooling&lt;/strong&gt;: Postman.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="devops--cloud-native"&gt;DevOps &amp;amp; Cloud Native&lt;a class="anchor" href="#devops--cloud-native"&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Orchestration&lt;/strong&gt;: Kubernetes &amp;amp; Docker.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CLI Essentials&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;code&gt;kubectl&lt;/code&gt; (aliased to &lt;code&gt;k&lt;/code&gt;), &lt;code&gt;helm&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;k9s&lt;/code&gt; for cluster management.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CI/CD&lt;/strong&gt;: Harness CI/CD (The &amp;ldquo;Eat your own dog food&amp;rdquo; approach).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Infrastructure&lt;/strong&gt;: Terraform for provisioning.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="productivity"&gt;Productivity&lt;a class="anchor" href="#productivity"&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Second Brain&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href="https://notion.so"&gt;Notion&lt;/a&gt; for architecture notes and roadmap planning.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Collaboration&lt;/strong&gt;: Google Docs &amp;amp; Google Sheets for technical specs and data tracking.&lt;/li&gt;
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