i’m shubham

I did not start coding with a roadmap. I started by skidding Discord bots—copying code I barely understood, changing command names, dropping tokens into config files, and feeling unstoppable when the bot finally came online.

the start

At first, getting something to run was enough. Then it would break, and the snippet I copied would stop being useful. A command would fail for no obvious reason. An API would change. The bot would work locally and disappear the moment I tried to keep it online. I kept pulling on those threads because I hated not knowing what was actually happening.

That curiosity became the real beginning. Discord APIs led to backend code. Keeping a bot alive led to servers and Linux. Slow commands led to databases, caching, and networking. Deploying one small thing made me want to understand the entire path between writing code and somebody else being able to rely on it.

from bots to systems

Somewhere along the way, the goal changed. I was no longer satisfied with making software run; I wanted to know why it stayed up, how it failed, what happened under load, and whether another person could understand it after I walked away.

That pull took me deeper into backend and platform engineering. I worked on production systems at MegaLLM , cofounded Routing , and built Ultrabalancer . Each one pushed me closer to the parts of software I enjoy most: performance, infrastructure, failure modes, and the tools people depend on when the easy path stops working.

where i am now

Today I work on inference infrastructure and DevOps at CommandCode . My work sits around GPUs, model serving, deployments, APIs, observability, and the production paths connecting all of them. It is a long way from editing somebody else’s Discord bot, but the motivation is still familiar: understand what is underneath, then make it work better.

I am especially interested in systems that have to be both fast and understandable. Raw performance matters, but so do failure behavior, security boundaries, and whether the system tells the truth about what it is doing. I like removing mystery from complicated things without pretending the complexity was never there.

away from the keyboard

Jaipur is home. Outside work, I read and collect manga and comics, keep adding volumes faster than I can organize them, and occasionally remember that not every interesting system needs a terminal attached to it.

elsewhere

GitHub , X, work, writing, and hi@yshubham.com.