A / Context
The work spans Autodesk web platforms and learning systems inside a 15-member cross-functional team, with product, UX, backend, and delivery concerns moving in parallel.
Opening field journal
Ayush Rameja / Field Journal / 2026
Bangalore, India / 12.9716 N, 77.5946 E
Issue 01
Full-stack platform engineer
I build the systems behind ambitious products.
Engineering from interface to infrastructure.
React, Next.js, Node.js, AWS, distributed workflows, and product delivery.
Next / 01.1 Autodesk
P1 / Independent product
Bakbak / Private beta
A small room for big conversations.
Persistent chat, drop-in voice and video, and a synchronized soundboard for close friends.
Built as the opposite of public social media: invite-only, no discovery feed, and no pressure to perform for strangers.
Product note / 001
The group chat grew a front door.
Persistent private chat
Shared soundboard
01.1 / Featured case study
Dec 2024 – Present
Bangalore, India
Platforms at scale: products that hold up under real use.
Shipping and evolving content and learning platforms used at meaningful scale. The work crosses content platforms, learning systems, APIs, caching, queues, and the team practices required to ship them well.
100+
pages migrated
5M+
monthly page views
300+
PRs reviewed
B / Contribution
Led full-stack delivery, developed key student-facing services, reviewed 300+ pull requests, collaborated with product and UX, and served as rotating Scrum Master.
Selected systems
01.comNext
02MVP Learn v2
Working range
Next.js platforms / Learning systems / AWS services
01 / Work archive
Three chapters. One increasingly larger systems problem.
02 / Field notes
Practical engineering judgment on one desk. Work, attention, and the Bhagavad Gita on the other.
Notes for building software and staying reasonably human while doing it.
02.A / Desk
Engineering notes
Latest three
010203
How to Review Agent-Written PRs Without Lowering the Bar
A practical review workflow for AI-assisted pull requests: smaller diffs, sharper checks, better evidence, and human accountability.
Apr 06, 2026
7 min
Engineering Decision Docs That Teams Will Actually Read
A practical template for writing decision docs that clarify options, trade-offs, and risks before the team wastes another meeting.
Mar 20, 2026
7 min
How Developers Should Write Portfolio Case Studies
A sharper way to write case studies that show judgment, constraints, trade-offs, and outcomes people can trust.
Mar 16, 2026
7 min
02.B / Desk
Life notes
Latest three
010203
Dharma vs People-Pleasing in Modern Life
A practical reading of dharma as right action with boundaries, not approval-seeking disguised as kindness.
Mar 21, 2026
9 min
Karma Yoga for Modern Work (Without Becoming a Doormat)
A pragmatic take on “action without attachment”: own the work, not the outcomes—or other people’s chaos.
Feb 05, 2026
10 min
The Three Gunas: A Practical Model for Your Mood, Energy, and Choices
Sattva, rajas, tamas—clarity, agitation, inertia. A no-nonsense way to diagnose your state and choose the right intervention.
Feb 04, 2026
11 min
04 / Correspondence