About

I’m Shashwat Gupta — an Engineering Manager at Microsoft. I’ve spent my career building and leading teams that ship backend and distributed systems.

This site is a long-form home for things that don’t fit in a tweet: lessons from running teams, deep dives into systems I’ve worked on, and the occasional opinion on how software gets built.

What you’ll find here

• Notes on engineering leadership and team building.
• Distributed-systems write-ups and post-mortems of ideas.
• Short essays on the craft of writing software.

Get in touch

The fastest way to reach me is on LinkedIn. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed to get new posts as they go up.

Colophon

Built with Astro, served from a Raspberry Pi in my home, and routed through Cloudflare. Source is a plain folder of Markdown files — the way blogs should be.