Chandraprakash Darji
Software Engineer
- building infra-stack — opinionated AWS starter (EKS + Terraform + OTel)
- 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.
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
kubernetes finally clicked for me
i spent months hearing about kubernetes and nodding along. then i actually sat down and mapped it to things i already understood. heres how it actually clicked.
2026-05-21
