# Shubham Rao — cshubhamrao.dev

> I build the systems your systems depend on: control planes, workflow engines, entity
> reconciliation, and the correctness mechanisms that keep them dependable. It's my job
> and my passion, and the passion came first.

Last updated: 2026-07-30. Based in India.
Canonical website: https://cshubhamrao.dev/
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## What I actually do

- **Control planes and the glue between systems** — Kubernetes operators and CRDs, gRPC
  schemas, metering, observability, build and release. This has been the constant
  subject across every role.
- **I make whole classes of mistakes impossible, not just unlikely** — authorization
  rules live in the schema, so an endpoint cannot ship unprotected. Retries are safe to
  repeat. When I fix a bug, I add the test that keeps the whole class of it out.
- **I work with LLM-generated code and review it properly** — specs kept short enough
  to stay true, invariants written down and tested, design critiques kept on record.

## Now

- Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform @ **Lyric.tech** (2025–present) — Python and
  TypeScript services: entity reconciliation, workflow DSLs, Temporal workflows,
  ConnectRPC, and platform and data APIs for supply-chain workflows.

## Previously

- **Tune AI / NimbleBox.ai** (2020–2025, to shutdown) — ML-infrastructure platform.
  Arc: ML scripts → owned services → the Go control plane, operator and IaC → shared
  platform libraries → in-process frameworks with written design rationale. Led
  OpenTelemetry adoption; gRPC model-serving backbone at 100M+ tokens/day.
- **UC Berkeley SCET** — Visiting Scholar (2019), scholarship recipient ($20K).
- **SRM University** — B.Tech in Computer Science (2017–2021). Teaching Assistant.

## Stack

- **Languages**: Go, Python, TypeScript, Rust (hobby), SQL
- **Backend**: gRPC + protobuf (incl. custom options), ConnectRPC + buf, FastAPI,
  Apache APISIX, Temporal, TigerBeetle
- **Infrastructure**: Kubernetes (operators/CRDs, Kubebuilder), Docker, AWS, GCP,
  Terraform, Pulumi, Kafka, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Redis
- **Observability**: OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, structured logging

## Projects

- [cloud-credit-system](https://github.com/cshubhamrao/cloud-credit-system) — credit
  accounting on TigerBeetle + Temporal; idempotent by construction.
- [proto-opt-parse](https://github.com/cshubhamrao/proto-opt-parse) — runtime protobuf
  descriptor-option parsing for Go tooling.
- [aws-sso-check](https://github.com/cshubhamrao/aws-sso-check) — AWS SSO expiry
  notifier; shell → Swift → Go, with a private patch overlay.
- [Colbert AI](https://github.com/NextTechLabAP/Colbert-AI) — GPT-2 fine-tuned on 500+
  monologue transcripts; a team project at Next Tech Lab, still posting as
  [@DeepColbert](https://x.com/DeepColbert). LLM hijinks, early.
- Upstream: [Kubernetes Dashboard #7093](https://github.com/kubernetes-retired/dashboard/pull/7093)
  — reported and fixed a crash on generic ephemeral volumes;
  [golang/go#71738](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/71738) — pseudo-version
  stamping in `cmd/go` for a module in a subdirectory.

## Talks and honors

- **DevOpsDays Bengaluru 2023** — ["Using APISIX as a Reverse Proxy"](https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-bengaluru/program),
  co-presented with Vinuja Khatode: reverse proxying high-volume inference traffic.
- **Winner, HACKIIITD 2017** (IIIT-Delhi) — 1st of 800+ teams; blockchain-based
  consensus against misinformation.
- Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer. President's Placement Award, SRM University.

## Contact

- Email: contact@cshubhamrao.dev
- GitHub: https://github.com/cshubhamrao
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cshubhamrao
- Website: https://cshubhamrao.dev

## Optional

- [About](https://cshubhamrao.dev/about/) — long-form background.
- [Reading](https://cshubhamrao.dev/books/) — running shelf log.