Hello, world

This is the first post on my blog. It’s a place for my notes in public — things I’ve learned, things I’m figuring out, and the occasional deep dive into something I just shipped.

What to expect

I’m an engineering manager who stays hands-on, so expect a mix of management and technical writing:

• Data platforms — Kafka, Snowflake, Snowpipe Streaming, the boring plumbing that makes products work.
• AI-assisted delivery — Claude Code, MCP, agents that draft with a human review gate. Workflows, not hype.
• 0-to-1 product work — building a vertical from zero, payments + risk, the messy parts that don’t make it into the RFC.
• Engineering leadership — hiring, coaching, the player-coach operating model.
• Short notes when something surprised me and I want to remember it.

Some posts will be polished. Most won’t. I’d rather publish rough notes than wait for perfect ones.

The setup

The site itself is built with Astro, styled by hand, and served statically from Cloudflare. There’s a longer post on the stack here — it’s the same one that powers the code blocks you’re reading right now:

import { defineConfig } from 'astro/config';

export default defineConfig({
  site: 'https://jaybujala.com',
  // The good stuff goes here.
});

More soon. Thanks for reading.

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