Umang Galaiya

Building software that allows people to spend time doing whatever they like, instead of struggling with tech is what drives me. I'm good at making separate services work together, as well as creating interfaces - both APIs and visual interfaces.

One of the most complex projects I've worked on is orchestrating actions on behalf of the user, without the user actually being present. Think of it as an API for the end user where they say "like the next Facebook post", "fetch the next Facebook post", "add a comment to this post". This was complex because it had to be run on a very minimal machine, and it couldn't use headless browser instances (because any request could be served by any of the X replicas - headless would make it a sticky session). I learnt a lot about how performant systems are actually made, what tradeoffs to make as a developer when you're trying to make the code look pretty and modular, but also need to ship things quickly and incorporate business requirements.

I'd be a great participant at InOut because I'm not into CRUD - I like building things that do something they weren't supposed to do (hacking things together, in the literal sense).