About Me
👋👋, Wrold! I’m Taq, I build (and sometimes break) things.
I am of Bangali descent; I grew up in Queens, NY during the late 90s/early aughts. As a native (and proud!) New Yorker, I have had the good fortune to attend and graduate from two top tier academic institutions in NYC: Stuyvesant High School and the Cooper Union.
Currently, I serve as Senior Director of Engineering at Peloton, where I lead our Platform organization and several backend product teams (about 10 teams in total). We own the infrastructure and core backend services that power the Peloton experience: from traffic routing and orchestration to user identity management to workout creation and storage.
In the recent past, I also moonlighted as an adjunct professor at Baruch University and as an instructor at General Assembly. (I have since scaled back my activities to focus on building the best possible team experience I can at PTON).
I’ve posted on and off on platforms such as Medium and Dev.to in the past - this blog is an exercise in asserting better ownership of my content (mainly for the purpose of retaining long term access).
I will typically write about topics I find interesting and/or esoteric bugs I’ve discovered while building something. I strongly value feedback and would very much appreciate any constructive criticism you might have about my content. Feel free to get in touch on Twitter or Linkedin (links available on main menu).
Thanks for stopping by, fam.