Debanjan Choudhury

Tech lead at Apollo. I like it when someone uses my code and never learns my name. A sequence they sent. The mailbox it left from. Before that, a notification, a WhatsApp message, or the chat agent at Snapdeal. These days agents can do the Apollo part from a chat, and I'm still delighted by that.

This site is where a thought goes once I've sat with it. The messier first pass is a short take on X. The polished professional version is on LinkedIn.

• 2026-07 Why care about building at all Code is temporary. The trust people put in what you shipped is not.
• 2026-07 I was missing better questions I kept naming patterns. The useful move was a better question.
• 2026-07 Loud is not the same as right The fastest person in an incident is not always the one who ends it.
• 2026-06 One slow shard The shard got slow. Our retries took the system with it.
• 2026-06 The counts did not add up What we sent and what we could prove did not match. That was the outage.