03 / Community × real timestill on the workbench
SkillX
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Pradeep Tarakar / software engineerA little
A little
of everything.
I make things for the web. Then I get curious about the systems underneath, the AI in between, and what happens when something breaks.
Jack of many trades? Guilty.
01 / The scrapbook
Things I made.
Some tabs became actual things.
These are a few of them.
01 / Language × carea little more human
Unmute
A multilingual space for emotional expression, translation, and clinician-ready summaries across 10+ languages.
02 / Documents × AIfollow the question
RAGloma
Context-aware document chat with local inference and live web search. A useful answer hiding in a pile of files.
04 / Infrastructure × automationrepeat the good parts
Automation lab
Repeatable Nextcloud and Infisical deployments, plus smaller Docker recipes and Kubernetes drafts still on the workbench.
02 / Field notes
Things I wrote.
Write it down
before the next rabbit hole.
03 / Security side quest
How could this break?
This rabbit hole started
in the server room.
When the network was one big room.
On-prem servers and everyday devices shared a flat network. I turned that problem into a side project: a small DMZ with port-based VLANs, Snort watching the traffic, and ELK making the alerts visible.
small network. real constraints. many notes.
the problemOne flat network
the boundaryPort-based VLANs
the visibilitySnort + ELK
What can go wrong between request and response?
I co-authored a paper on common web application vulnerabilities and practical habits for reducing them.
Read the paper04 / Annotated reading
The paper shelf.
A few good papers.
A lot of writing in the margins.
The Google File System
On the reading desk
Reference PDF coming soonA note from the systems shelf.
HOTP & TOTP — RFC 4226 & RFC 6238
On the reading desk
Reference PDF coming soonA note from the security shelf.
Two papers on the shelf. More references soon.
05 / Author's noteHi, I'm
Hi, I'm
Pradeep.
I've spent 2+ years making things across the stack—from interfaces and data models to RAG pipelines and cloud infrastructure.
Along the way: 30% less cloud spend, automation for 15+ servers, and tools that speak 10+ languages.
Apparently, curiosity has a work history.
Senior Software Engineer · Jyot India
Notification systems and AI-powered knowledge discovery.
Software Development Engineer · Kagaar
Founding team architecture, data modeling, and caching.
DevOps Engineer · Sirpi
Cloud optimization, automation, observability, and a DMZ/IDS side project.