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$ whoami#

Hey, I’m Gaurav Singha Roy — a Senior Principal Engineer (Senior Staff Engineer) based in Berlin, with 16+ years of experience developing, designing, and working with software of all kinds and scale. Originally from India, I have called Germany home for the past 13 years.

Experienced in building distributed systems with a strong focus on event-driven design and the engineering practices that make them sustainable at scale. Systems engineering is a passion — the kind of work that never stops being interesting.

Since 2019, I’ve leaned into tech leadership as an Individual/Expert Contributor — helping grow engineering organisations through architectural design, scaling systems, operational excellence, and enabling the people around me to do their best work.

$ cat interests.txt#

  • Distributed systems & event-driven architecture
  • Site Reliability Engineering
  • Functional programming
  • Web semantics & databases
  • Kubernetes
  • Staying close to the customer and understanding the product being built
  • Tinkering with software experiments — especially finding cleaner approaches to AI-assisted software development
  • Board games (a recent obsession that’s taken over a serious chunk of spare time)

$ cat /etc/hobbies#

Outside of work: reading, writing, cooking five nights a week, and rolling dice at the board game table (a claim no serious board gamer would make proudly).

$ cat contact.json#

1{
2  "github":   "github.com/gsingharoy",
3  "linkedin": "linkedin.com/in/gaurav-singha-roy-21480b14",
4  "mastodon": "hachyderm.io/@gsingharoy",
5  "blog":     "blog.gauravsingharoy.net"
6}