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Aug 17, 2026

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Hi, I’m Bishal Roy — a backend, cloud, and systems engineer based in Guwahati, India.

I write mostly Go and TypeScript, building backend systems and shipping them to production. Most of my career has been at early-stage startups, where I’ve had to take real ownership of what I build — from the initial design through to running it in production. When something breaks at 2am, that’s on me, and that’s the way I prefer it. The ownership is the part I like.

What I enjoy about early-stage work is the breadth. I like experimenting with different technologies and approaches, even when they don’t end up in production. The exploration is half the fun for me.

Outside of work, I live in the terminal. Neovim is my editor — actual Neovim, not VS Code with a Vim plugin. fzf for fuzzy finding, tmux for panes(which is now replaced with herdr), ghostty for the terminal itself. If it has a CLI, I’ll find a way to live there.

~ Bishal