I'm a 3rd-year engineering student who learns by building β currently deep-diving into backend engineering and site reliability, with an eye on distributed systems. I spend my time debugging real issues in large open-source codebases, writing REST APIs from scratch, and picking apart production postmortems to understand why things break.
- π Currently working on
kubernetes/kubernetesissue #141036 β a CI flake inci-kubernetes-node-arm64-ubuntu-serialwith three distinct failure modes (GCE stockouts, silent SSH/ginkgo hangs, and a static/mirror pod race) - β
Shipped my first merged PR to
kubernetes/community(#9083 β added@release-commsusergroup to sig-release) - π± Learning REST APIs from the ground up β hands-on with Postman, and building a notes API in Spring Boot
- π Running my own "postmortems" of Kubernetes architecture β RCA technique + failure analysis, as prep for SRE work
- π― Working toward LFX Mentorship and GSoC 2027
- π Competing in Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2026
- π¬ Ask me about Kubernetes internals, REST API design, or how to read a CI flake like a detective novel
- Kubernetes controller internals and the
cloud-provider-openstackcodebase - Distributed systems fundamentals (for an upcoming SNA research paper)
- Public incident postmortems from companies like Cloudflare, GitHub, and Google SRE
We Learn by Building ~ Neha Saini

