Hi, I'm Daksh.
If you've landed here, you've probably already seen the rest of the site: the work, the projects, the usual highlights. This space is for everything that doesn't fit neatly into a résumé bullet: the thinking, the false starts, and the things I'm still figuring out.
A little about me
I'm a curious person who happens to write software for a living. I like understanding how things work, whether that's a distributed system, a good film, or why a particular cover drive feels so satisfying to play.
By day, I'm a software engineer. These days I'm at Meta on the Threads Monetization team, and I genuinely enjoy the craft of building things that are reliable and feel simple to use. But work is just one part of the picture.
Away from the keyboard, I'm usually on a cricket field or arguing about field placements, deep into a video game, or watching a movie I'll happily over-analyze afterward. I love a good conversation, the kind that wanders from tech to philosophy to nothing in particular and somehow lasts hours.
I think a lot, probably too much, and writing is how I make sense of it all. I'm drawn to people who are honest, a little obsessive about the things they care about, and kind for no particular reason. I try to be those things too, with mixed but improving results.
Why I'm starting this blog
Honestly, the simplest reason is that I just love writing. There's something about putting words in order that I find genuinely fun, almost meditative. But beyond that, there are two reasons.
The first is to share. Over the years I've leaned heavily on other people's writing blog posts, design docs, postmortems to learn how systems actually work in the wild. This is my small way of paying that back and writing down what I've learned so it might save someone else a few hours.
The second is to learn. There's a peculiar honesty that comes from writing something down. You can't hand-wave past the parts you don't understand. So a lot of what I publish here will be me thinking out loud: turning fuzzy intuitions into something I can actually defend.
What to expect
No fixed schedule, no manufactured hot takes. Just occasional, hopefully useful notes on the things I'm working on and curious about.
And it won't all be work. Expect some posts that have nothing to do with code at all, random thoughts on life, things I'm learning outside the terminal, and whatever happens to be on my mind. Think of this as less of a tech blog and more of a place I write, work and life both end up here.
If any of that sounds like your kind of thing, stick around. And if something here is wrong, unclear, or sparks a thought. I'd love to hear from you.
Thanks for reading. More soon.