Notes on technology leadership, architecture, building an AI startup, and home-lab experiments.https://nandigam.in/https://nandigam.in/blog/building-finmoon-ai/https://nandigam.in/blog/building-finmoon-ai/Why we built a personal finance decision assistant for Indian professionals, what generic AI chat gets wrong, and what getting into Google for Startups India Hub taught us.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTStartupFinMoon AIAI productsFoundingFintechhttps://nandigam.in/blog/from-developer-to-founder/https://nandigam.in/blog/from-developer-to-founder/Developer, senior developer, lead DevOps engineer, principal engineer, co-founder. What actually changed at each step, and what I wish I had learned sooner.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTLeadershipCareerEngineering leadershipPrincipal engineeringhttps://nandigam.in/blog/architecture-before-ai/https://nandigam.in/blog/architecture-before-ai/Most teams choose a model first and discover their constraints later. Here is the order I work in instead — and the patterns that make GenAI systems production-grade.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTLeadershipGenerative AIArchitectureLLMOpsTechnology strategyhttps://nandigam.in/blog/building-a-zfs-nas-with-openmediavault/https://nandigam.in/blog/building-a-zfs-nas-with-openmediavault/Why I chose ZFS, what RAID-Z1 does and doesn’t protect you from, and the habits that keep a home NAS trustworthy.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHome LabZFSOpenMediaVaultNASStorageLinuxhttps://nandigam.in/blog/n8n-agent-controls-circuit-breakers/https://nandigam.in/blog/n8n-agent-controls-circuit-breakers/An n8n agentic workflow that reads email notifications and switches smart MCBs over MQTT — and the guardrails you need when an LLM can touch the physical world.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHome Labn8nAI agentsMQTTIoTAutomationhttps://nandigam.in/blog/kubernetes-on-raspberry-pi/https://nandigam.in/blog/kubernetes-on-raspberry-pi/Building a three-node bare-metal Kubernetes cluster at home — and why the constraints of cheap hardware make you a better platform engineer.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHome LabKubernetesRaspberry PiDockerLinuxHome labhttps://nandigam.in/blog/gcp-migration-cut-costs-40-percent/https://nandigam.in/blog/gcp-migration-cut-costs-40-percent/A cloud migration is a business project wearing an infrastructure costume. The playbook I use to move legacy systems to GCP without a big-bang cutover, and where the savings actually come from.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTArchitectureGoogle CloudKubernetesTerraformCI/CDFinOpshttps://nandigam.in/blog/self-hosting-family-photos-with-immich/https://nandigam.in/blog/self-hosting-family-photos-with-immich/Running Immich for family photo backup with face recognition and smart search — what the architecture looks like, and what owning your data really costs.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHome LabImmichDockerPostgreSQLMachine learningSelf-hostinghttps://nandigam.in/blog/shipping-an-enterprise-mvp/https://nandigam.in/blog/shipping-an-enterprise-mvp/How to build the smallest thing that proves value to an enterprise client, with the seams in the right places so success doesn’t force a rewrite.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTArchitectureMVPAngularSpring BootPostgreSQLDockerhttps://nandigam.in/blog/what-99-9-uptime-really-costs/https://nandigam.in/blog/what-99-9-uptime-really-costs/Three nines sounds modest until you design for it. Error budgets, failure isolation, caching and team boundaries from a platform serving millions of users.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTArchitectureMicroservicesSpring BootKubernetesRedisReliability