July 2025

Return to BLR

On June 23, 2025 I came back to BLR from CCU. This marked a very big departure from my plans to moving to the mountains with a remote job.
I found a job which is exactly the opposite of remote. I had almost found a remote role, but honestly this job is much more aligned with my career goals.

Starting a new job

A friend asked me if I would want to work at a "Data-Center" company. I said yes and that was it.
I am working at a Data-Center company in India. The work involves interacting with all layers in the modern cloud stack i.e. from hypervisors in the DC to customers VMs and on-prem K8S cluster.

This is an in-office role where I have to be in office for working hours. Apart from this the work-culture is very chill and relaxed.

I am working on a bunch of fun projects. I will write about them sometime.

One fun thing here is that I might be able to start the company tech-blog. If that happens, I will link it here

Moving to a new house

I also had to find a new house. I was so confident of finding a rmeote job and moving to the mountains, that I told my previous flat-mate to find a new flat-mate.
Which he did, thus I had to find a new house.

This is not too bad because I do enjoy the process of living by myself. It is much more peaceful than living with someone.

I found a house in 3 days and I like it very much.
My friend Tanvi helped me move. She has a car and we put everything in the car and moved to the new place.

What surprised me was how much stuff one can fit in a car. I was seriously underestimating the luggage carrying capacity of the car.

Tanvi also helped me setup the house and we did a D-Mart run and got a LOT of things for the new house. Mostly daily use items like plates and tumblers. I fuund these steel tumblers which are extremely nice.

Chennai Data-Center Visit

Like I said, our company operates a bunch of data-centers in India and as a part of this job, I will have to interact with the various teams that run these Data-Centers. To facilitate this, me and my colleague (Mehul) decided to visit the Chennai DC and meet the team there. The entire cloud-ops team works out of the DC itself.

This was my first time visiting a Data-Center. It was incredible. I was able to visit the data-floor once. The security is very tight and there was a lot of paperwork to do.

This DC is primarily going to be used to GPU workloads, hence most of the compute here was GPU based. I saw a couple NVIDIA H200 gpu based platforms provided by Dell. It felt very magical to me honestly.

It is one thing to read about Infinibadn switches and another completely different thing to see it in action. An entire-rack filled with Infiniband switches which enable East-West Traffic @ 400gbps across the GPUs. I will write more about this sometime.

Apart from GPU there was also a very very large storage array. Afterall you do need storage to feed these beasts.