Gokul

I build things mostly for myself and my family, and share what’s useful.

A lot of it starts from small needs. Something breaks, something feels inefficient, or something I don’t understand fully. I try to fix it, and that usually turns into a small project.

I focus on strategy, along with testing, architecture, and solution design. Most of my day is spent understanding how systems behave, where they can fail, and how to make them more reliable.

Outside of work, I like building things from scratch.

I got into self-hosting in 2023.

It started out of curiosity. I wanted to understand how things actually run — not just deploy something and move on, but what’s happening underneath. That curiosity stuck. Since then, I’ve been running my own services, experimenting with containers, reverse proxies, domains, and slowly building my own setup.

This site is part of that process.

I don’t consider myself a writer.

Most of what I write here are notes. Things I didn’t fully understand the first time. Things I had to revisit. Things I don’t want to forget.

Sometimes it’s about testing, systems, self-hosting, random tech thoughts, or just things I’m figuring out.

I like simple things.

Not minimal for the sake of it, but simple because complexity adds friction. I’d rather understand something clearly than rely on layers of abstraction.

This site is intentionally plain.

No heavy frameworks. No unnecessary complexity. Just enough to work.

If you’re here, you probably found something useful, or you’re just exploring.

Either way, welcome.