Co-Founder & CTPO, GrackerAI · Bengaluru, India
Hey, I’m Govind.
I build products at the seam of engineering, product and growth. Sixteen years of writing software — the last twelve spent going from junior developer to VP of Product & Engineering at LoginRadius, and the current ones spent building GrackerAI.
What I’m building
Recent writing
- Best Databases for Startups The honest answer is usually Postgres. When it is not, what each exception costs you in operational overhead, and how to tell the difference early.
- Best Postgres Extensions for Production Workloads Extensions are free. Getting your managed provider to allow them is not. What each one needs from the platform, and how to verify support before you commit.
- Best Managed Postgres Providers Connection limits, extensions and failover behaviour decide this, not the feature grid. What the managed layer really owns and what it only appears to.
- Best Serverless Databases Cold starts, scale-to-zero economics, and why the connection model matters more than the pricing page. Where the serverless premium stops being worth paying.
- Best Secrets Management for CI/CD Pipelines Why OIDC federation should replace long-lived keys in CI, how to scope secrets per environment, where they leak into build logs, and how to rotate without breaking pipelines.