Oct 2026
On the Matters of Grudge and Forgiveness
the art of letting go
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Senior Software Engineer @ Founda · India
Hritik Rai
Software engineer — distributed systems, AI agents, and platform security
I build scalable backends and automation that ships: metadata platforms at multi-tenant scale, agent workflows for sales and engineering, and the migrations and security fixes that keep production boring. I write on Substack as prometheus when I'm not in the terminal.
- Senior Software Engineer @ Founda
- Previously SDE 2 @ Atlan
- India
- Substack · prometheus
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virtual-self-memory Python · PostgreSQL · Docker — lifepath Java · Spring Boot · PostgreSQL — dum-e Python · pi agent · Linux — system-monitor Python · Textual · NVIDIA — research-digest Node · Shell · n8n — create-express-mvt Node · Express · npm 9 maalgaadi-frontend React · Redux · Material-UI 3 general-django-cms-template Python · Django · REST API 1 say-it Java · Android 1 bakery-manager Python · REST API — crunchp Python · Security · GPU — enumerator Python · Security 1 goodreads Security · Learning 4 machine-ctf-writeups Security · CTF — Oct 2026
You Cannot Defeat a Person Who Is Having Fun
A very non-literal psychological essay on finding your best self.
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how to start enjoying life as it was intended
building a more intentional life
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Engineering rings.
Grouped by what I ship most often — select a chip to highlight on the canvas.
- RING 01 Scale & data Cassandra · Elasticsearch · Temporal · Argo Workflows · Kafka · ClickHouse
- RING 02 AI & automation Agent workflows · Vector search · Code intelligence · n8n · Prompt tooling
- RING 03 Security & platform Dependency remediation · Jakarta EE migrations · Valkey TLS · CI base images · OAuth/JWT
- RING 04 Web & backend Spring Boot · NestJS · Node/Express · Django · Kubernetes · AWS
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Oct 2026 Essay · Substack On the Matters of Grudge and Forgiveness
the art of letting go
Oct 2026 Essay · Substack You Cannot Defeat a Person Who Is Having FunA very non-literal psychological essay on finding your best self.
Oct 2026 Essay · Substack how to start enjoying life as it was intendedbuilding a more intentional life
2026 Work · Platform & AI FoundaTook a cross-repo code-intelligence proof of concept from vendor evaluation to four deployable services — context agent, state machine, indexer and embedder — on EU-compliant vector search, SCIP indexing, a knowledge graph and golden-question evals; demoed end to end, ticket to merge request.