https://bishtayush.com I design and build the invisible, scalable backbone of modern applications — microservices, enterprise workflow automation, and IoT infrastructure. At Racanaa Energy I own backend systems that quietly manage 25,000+ IoT assets across 500+ enterprise sites. Lately I've been deep in building data, video-streaming, and image-processing pipelines with a sprawling toolbox of technologies — and teaching myself AI, on purpose. When I'm not optimizing database schemas or deploying to AWS, you'll find me setting up plays on the volleyball court, exploring the peaks of Uttarakhand, or capturing the world through a camera lens. en Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:28:54 GMT https://bishtayush.com/blog/learning-ai-on-purpose https://bishtayush.com/blog/learning-ai-on-purpose Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI is moving faster than any of us can passively absorb. So I stopped trying to absorb it and started learning it deliberately — as a backend engineer, on purpose, a piece at a time. https://bishtayush.com/blog/pipelines-all-the-way-down https://bishtayush.com/blog/pipelines-all-the-way-down Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT My favourite kind of engineering is plumbing. Give me a firehose of data, a stream of video, or a pile of images and a pipeline to push them through, and I'm happy. Here's why — and the sprawl of tools it takes. https://bishtayush.com/blog/designing-rema-iot-platform https://bishtayush.com/blog/designing-rema-iot-platform Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT REMA configures real hardware across 500+ enterprise sites — meters, sensors, controllers, gateways. When a bad write can mis-configure a physical device, the backend's job stops being CRUD and starts being safety. https://bishtayush.com/blog/keeping-the-ball-alive https://bishtayush.com/blog/keeping-the-ball-alive Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Volleyball is my ultimate reset button. It also, surprisingly, taught me how to debug a production crash at 11pm without panicking. https://bishtayush.com/blog/workflow-automation-approvals https://bishtayush.com/blog/workflow-automation-approvals Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT A workflow engine for enterprise service requests — multi-level approvals, SLA tracking, SOP scheduling across time zones. The hard part isn't the automation. It's deciding what stays human. https://bishtayush.com/blog/schema-design-that-ages-well https://bishtayush.com/blog/schema-design-that-ages-well Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A schema is a promise you make to your future self. After designing MySQL schemas for configuration-heavy systems, here's what I've learned about the promises worth keeping. https://bishtayush.com/blog/chasing-perspectives https://bishtayush.com/blog/chasing-perspectives Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Travel photography is my newest obsession — my way of slowing down and capturing the narrative of a place. It's a work in progress, but it keeps me looking at the world from different angles. https://bishtayush.com/blog/seventy-rest-apis https://bishtayush.com/blog/seventy-rest-apis Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Across a few backend systems I've shipped 70+ REST APIs. The endpoints blur together; the principles don't. A field guide to the ones that survived contact with production. https://bishtayush.com/blog/born-in-the-hills https://bishtayush.com/blog/born-in-the-hills Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Belonging to Uttarakhand, the mountains are in my DNA. There's a certain humility and clarity that comes with high altitudes — and it's where I go to remember how to think. https://bishtayush.com/blog/from-technical-writer-to-engineer https://bishtayush.com/blog/from-technical-writer-to-engineer Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT I spent a couple of years writing documentation for complex engineering systems before I built them. It turns out explaining a system clearly is the best possible training for designing one.