Chandraprakash Darji
Software Engineer
- learning Go by shipping small tools
- freelancing — full-stack builds for early-stage products
Hello!!!
software engineer. full stack, freelancer, whatever the badge is. the title isn't the interesting part.
i build backends that hold under load and pick the tool that fits the actual scale — not the one everyone's writing about.
i write about the decisions that don't make it into the README. the architecture calls, the cost mistakes, the things you only figure out by shipping.
Have something to build?
I'm currently open to freelance and contract work.
The story behind elregaldo.com and rega.run
I quit content creation at 17 to go be practical. Five years later I bought elregaldo.com, the name of my old Minecraft channel. This is the story of why, and what I am quietly building next.
2026-06-20
how I actually navigate an unfamiliar codebase
a repeatable method for navigating any unfamiliar codebase: orient, run, locate, dig. works on a 3-file API or a 200-module monorepo.
2026-06-08
i learned terraform by destroying everything
five layers of infrastructure, built and destroyed, until a full EKS cluster ran from .tf files
2026-05-28
