$ whoami
wajed, backend engineer. if the page loads fast and nothing is on fire, that was me.
$ uptime
3+ years in production. occasional restarts (vacations). zero unplanned outages of enthusiasm.
$ ps aux | grep currently
learning Go, distributed systems, advanced k8s ← eating all the RAM
building high-throughput systems that scale ← running smoothly
migrating microservices from Python to Go ← 47% complete, do not power off(because writing a bio in prose is so 2024)
package main
import "time"
type Wajed struct {
Role string
Stack []string
Curr string
AskMe []string
FunFact string
}
func main() {
me := Wajed{
Role: "Backend Engineer",
Stack: []string{"Python", "Django", "FastAPI", "Go", "C#", "PostgreSQL", "Redis", "Kafka"},
Curr: "rewriting microservices in Go and telling everyone about it",
AskMe: []string{"Django optimization", "system design", "why Go's error handling is actually fine"},
FunFact: "my code works on YOUR machine too. that's the whole job.",
}
for me.IsAlive() {
me.Coffee()
me.Code()
me.Debug() // 80% of the loop, let's be honest
time.Sleep(6 * time.Hour) // aspirational
}
}| Round | 🐍 Python | 🐹 Go | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Writing it | poetry | paperwork | 🐍 |
| Running it | ☕ brew a coffee | already done | 🐹 |
| Error handling | try: everything |
if err != nil ×400 |
🐍 (fight me) |
| Deploying it | 1.2GB docker image | single 12MB binary | 🐹 |
| My heart | first love | current obsession | ❤️ both, don't make me choose |
Python ████████████████████░ daily driver
Go ███████████████░░░░░░ new obsession
C# ████████████░░░░░░░░░ picked up on the job at Hjemla
PostgreSQL ██████████████████░░░ we've been through a lot together
Kubernetes ████████████░░░░░░░░░ it works, don't touch it
Rust █████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ the borrow checker and I are in couples therapy
CSS ██░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ center a div? ...anyway, I'm a backend engineer
| Code | Meaning | Where |
|---|---|---|
200 OK |
fastest response | |
301 Moved Permanently |
professional me lives here | |
418 I'm a teapot |
me answering questions as "tintin" | Stack Overflow |
503 Service Unavailable |
weekends (allegedly) | touching grass 🌱 |
🕵️ TOP SECRET: do not click
you clicked. of course you clicked. you're a developer, "do not click" is a feature request to you.
┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED 🏆 │
│ "Read the whole README" │
│ │
│ Reward: my eternal respect + this cat │
│ │
│ /\_/\ │
│ ( o.o ) < "ship it" │
│ > ^ < │
└────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Actual secret roadmap:
- Get paid to write Python
- Sneak Go into production
- Convince team Rust is "just a small experiment"
- Write a database from scratch, use it never, mention it forever
99 little bugs in the code, 99 little bugs, take one down, patch it around... 127 little bugs in the code. 🎵