I'm Anshul Bisen, a Head of Engineering with 15 years building platforms, products, and delivery systems. This site is the proof of work — 100+ essays, real projects, live homelab. Read it, ask it anything.
est. 2011 · Pune“Make throughput predictable, quality sustainable — and then get out of the way.”
OpenAI-compatible API gateway wrapping CLI AI subscriptions
Multi-tenant project management with AI agents as first-class citizens
Personal life operating system with AI agent orchestration
Not resumes. Not endorsements. Not interview performance. The code you ship, the systems you build, the writing you publish. Ship it or it did not happen.
Over-hiring before culture. Saying yes to everything. Underinvesting in developer experience. Staying hands-on too long. The common thread was not trusting the team.
Edge containers win for stateless batch jobs and lightweight APIs. Self-hosting still wins for stateful services and observability. The line is shifting faster than expected.
FinanceOps started with a third-party ledger. Within 18 months we built our own. Ledger semantics are too coupled to business rules for abstraction.
Make throughput predictable and quality sustainable. Not hero-shipping. Not writing the most code. Build a system that delivers without depending on any single person.
Three ideas that stayed after fifteen years, many mistakes, and one eighteen-month tour as Head of Engineering.
The real job of a Head of Engineering is making throughput predictable and quality sustainable — not writing the most code.
The portfolio is the proof. Code merged, systems in production, writing published. Everything else is a story.
Every decision is a deposit into the architecture. Good taste compounds; shortcuts compound too.
Every post, project, and case study is indexed into a hybrid retrieval engine (BM25 + vectors) and surfaced through a streaming Gemini model with citation-grade quoting. Ask it anything you'd normally ask in a hiring call.