Talks, workshops, and panels on full-stack engineering, infrastructure, and developer tooling.
A practical walkthrough of replacing ₹60,000/month in SaaS bills with a single VPS running Mailcow, Nextcloud, Gitea, and Qdrant. Covered Caddy reverse proxy, Tailscale mesh networking, and zero-downtime deployments with Docker Compose. Audience: 200+ developers.
Demoed 5 of my 23 Model Context Protocol servers live — database introspection, Docker management, GitHub Actions control, and a Qdrant vector search tool. Showed how LLMs with good tooling can eliminate entire categories of manual work. 400+ attendees.
Hands-on workshop taking attendees from zero Rust experience to shipping a compiled WASM module in a Next.js app. Covered wasm-bindgen, performance profiling in Chrome DevTools, and the memory model differences between Rust and JavaScript.
Replacing SaaS with open-source alternatives, Tailscale mesh networking, Docker orchestration, and building reproducible server setups on a budget.
Model Context Protocol, building custom tooling for LLMs, integrating AI into CI/CD pipelines, and practical AI assistants that actually save time.
A JavaScript/TypeScript developer's guide to Rust — ownership, WASM compilation, Tauri desktop apps, and why the borrow checker is worth the pain.
Available for conferences, meetups, workshops, and online panels. Happy to tailor a talk for your audience.
For speaking enquiries: karan@dharmicdev.in
How to go from user to contributor — finding good first issues, understanding large codebases, writing quality PRs, and building a reputation in OSS.
Consensus algorithms, vector clocks, CRDTs, and how the theory translates into real decisions when building systems at scale.