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SF Reconnect “Reconnect” is a very corporate word for “hung out with my kid in the city we both live in,” but with the kitchen gone, even that took some planning. Vanya and I figured the fastest way back to normal life was somewhere with a stove that wasn’t ours. Nidhi Turns 50 Now it was Nidhi’s turn to be pampered - turning 50 apparently buys you a say in the itinerary, and she wanted a picnic in V....

I blinked, and it’s July. We spent most of the first quarter of 2026 with our kitchen torn down to the studs — which meant we enjoyed everyone else’s. Mack’s Table Mack and Vanya had us over to ring in 2026 — a proper sit-down candlelight dinner. I brought the wine, and Mack cooked us an Indian meal: kadhi, methi-aloo, and a cocktail that delighted us: it was turmeric milk. The kheer was the over-the-top closer....

If I had to sum up the last three years, it would be resilience, the unglamorous skill of continuing to show up, even when life keeps rearranging the furniture. 2023: Change (the good kind… and the other kind) 2023 brought big shifts. We moved into a new home, met new neighbors, and found our way back to friendships that make life feel full. It also delivered a stretch of uncertainty that tested us as a family....

I am thankful for the chance to contribute to BD Incada and the Pro Analytics launch. I’m grateful to have helped architect, design, drive, and deliver two BD Incada platform capabilities that will matter for BD customers for years: data visualization for analytics and identity and access management. Figure 1: Night sojourn at La Jolla shores! This was a real journey: often ambiguous, sometimes messy, and always requiring hard decisions. We began with open questions about scope and direction, navigated competing priorities, and made countless small tradeoffs that added up....

You're Invited! to a golden evening of celebration, and great company. Nidhi is Turning 50! and we're throwing a party to remember. 💛🍷 📅 Nov 1, 2025 ⏰ 6:30p – 11p 📍 McGrail Vineyards & Winery, Livermore, CA 📨 RSVP by Oct 12 🚫👶 Adults-only celebration 👨‍👩‍ Hosts: Sumeet & Vanya 👗👔 Dress Code: Formal Western attire in sunset colors Women Men For your gown, choose from a sunset palette: rust, mustard, marigold, terracotta, warm brown, burnt orange, rose pink, blush, peach, apricot, wine, rose gold, coral....

I landed in Delhi on August 25 with a round-trip ticket and a private deadline: find clarity by September 10. Back in California, Nidhi kept our life standing—quiet evenings, lonely walks, an empty side of the bed—while I learned a new routine of hospital corridors and chai breaks. My boss, Sahas, was very supportive and told me to do whatever it took to get my family in shape. Delhi welcomed me with torrential rains....

At Splunk, cloud sales teams faced a recurring nightmare — not that customers wouldn’t buy, but that we couldn’t fulfill what they purchased. The issue wasn’t demand. It was execution. Despite having invested heavily in elasticity and declarative configuration, order fulfillment remained brittle. The result? Delayed activations, broken provisioning flows, and in some quarters, missed revenue targets — not for lack of product-market fit, but due to gaps in automation and process....

In earlier posts, we discussed how Splunk Cloud evolved from a stateful monolith into an elastic, cloud-native platform. But elasticity alone wasn’t enough. A lingering Achilles’ heel remained — configuration management. Splunk’s on-prem model split cluster configuration across three major roles: ingestion, indexing, and search. Admins managed these settings manually, often SSHing into servers to copy or update config files. While workable in customer-controlled environments, this model completely broke down in the cloud....

When I joined Splunk in 2015, I was quickly tasked with reviving a twice-failed initiative — the creation of a shared component strategy for the core product. At the time, the product was growing rapidly, but also becoming increasingly bloated and monolithic. Feature teams were innovating, but in silos, leading to duplicated code, inconsistent operations, and mounting technical debt. To keep scaling, we needed a way to build once and reuse across domains — especially as new products like ITSM and SIEM started to share similar analytical needs....

The behavioral question, “How do you handle conflict?” has become a staple in engineering interviews. While it’s tempting to give a simple answer about being agreeable, that misses the point entirely. At the senior levels of engineering, conflict isn’t something to be avoided; it’s a catalyst. Disagreements, when managed correctly, are the crucibles where the strongest, most resilient technical solutions are forged. My approach isn’t about finding a middle ground or ensuring everyone leaves happy....