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 Director of Core Platform Software at Peloton; I am lucky and fortunate to work with an amazing team of engineers operating across 4 foundations:
- Traffic: application delivery controllers for all request layers running in Peloton’s infrastructure
- Orchestration: autonomous capabilities for teams to deploy manage and scale applications on Peloton’s infrastructure
- Observability: instrument, ingest, analyze and visualize all pillars of observability.
- Core: tier0 services and service components powering foundational capabilities such as user identity resolution and shared components in Peloton’s monolithic API service
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.