Hullo there!
My name is Ranjan, you may find my work bio here. I am currently building reliability focused tools at base14. I also help and coach founders and engineering leaders who have found pmf and are aspiring to scale their engineering teams.
More about base14
Nilakanta, Irfan and I have been building base14 since late 2024. Our mission is to help engineering teams build and operate reliable software systems without the complexity and toil that typically comes with it. The first time I worked with these 2 was way back in 2006, at ThoughtWorks. We have been friends and advisors to each other since then. We are a small, focused team that believes in building great products that solve real problems for our customers.
If you would like to interact with me -
- on Twitter, you may find me babbling about all kinds of topics (but not politics, I put that side of me away when online). My alias there is @rnjn
- you can also email me,
ratrnjn.in - I update my reading list infrequently on Goodreads
I prefer email for async conversations over most other channels where there are inherent expectations to get back as soon as its possible. This is not because I am busy, I just prefer a bit of think time on most topics.
I like writing code, reading books, all kinds, and I love watching the telly, and movies and sports. I like cooking and eating good food, and try (right now, only to myself) to find common things between cooking and software development. I also like travelling, music and all things shiny and well made. I like a lot of things, dislike very few, and that’s how I would like to see the world, a slight tilt to the positive is enough to keep everyone hopeful!