The Revolution That's Taking Forever
NDC has been trying to replace the GDS for 14 years: here is the political economy of why it has not, and what a bird strike revealed about the system it is replacing.
I build systems that don't apologise for existing.
Staff DevOps Engineer focusing on Go, Rust, and distributed systems. Design systems for performance and technical clarity.
Bird Strike, Terminal 2
A delayed feeder flight, a grounded Boeing 787-8, and what a 60-year-old system did when everything broke at Heathrow.
From GDS to Gate
What happens at 05:30 when I walk into Nagpur airport and the GDS steps out of the picture entirely.
Selected Projects
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urfave/cli
A declarative, simple, fast, and fun package for building command line tools in Go
GoOpen source
1,321 stars
amazon-archives/aws-lambda-container-image-converter
The AWS Lambda container image converter tool (img2lambda) repackages container images (such as Docker images) into AWS Lambda function deployment packages and Lambda layers.
GoOpen source
4,873 stars
yajra/laravel-datatables
jQuery DataTables API for Laravel
PHPOpen source
Experience
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Automattic
Driving infrastructure, reliability, and developer experience across distributed systems.
Lead Technology Consultant
Technogise
AI-assisted delivery and deep tooling integrations; analytics, internal tools, and workflows; self-serve reporting for finance. Reliability, security, CI/CD, and cluster operations; edge services and mentoring; polyglot work in regulated gaming.
Technology Consultant
Technogise
Raised architecture and delivery velocity; shipped annual identity re-verification aligned with engineering standards.
Director of Software Engineering
engineering.com
Self-service white-label instances; improved web and API performance; hybrid-to-native apps; on-demand environments for dev and QA.