Soham Shirke

dreams never die.

[Soham Shirke @SShogunCodes]

just built Control Plane Notebook — production-grade, fully server-rendered Go web app for internal runbooks, incident docs, and team knowledge workflows.

A 6min video explanation 🖇️(watch it)

no React. no SPA. no JSON API layer. just Go + html/template + PostgreSQL doing exactly what they're supposed to do.

what's in it: → session auth + RBAC (member / reviewer / admin) → draft → revision → approval → publish workflow → transactional audit logging + moderation → tag-based search — all of it clean DB transactions, no shortcuts

stack: Go 1.25+, chi, pgx, sqlc, scs, clean architecture, fake stores for unit tests

built this the way I'd want to find it at work. no cowboy deploys, no "we'll add auth later." governance baked in from the start.

if your team is still living in Notion with no approval trail or sharing runbooks in Slack threads, this is the kind of thing that fixes that.

repo: https://t.co/zOAQGmBvPA

stars and feedback genuinely appreciated — especially from Go folks and anyone building internal tooling 🙏

[Soham Shirke @SShogunCodes]

Went through an interview a few days ago that ended in halftime with the CEO violently closing his browser & ending the interview.

It was for an "Open Source Intern" role at an Indore-based cloud startup. The CEO himself was taking the round - someone with 12+ years of experience and heavy Kubernetes/CNPG background.

He started by asking if I had done any open source contributions before. I said no. His face changed immediately. From that point, the vibe shifted.

He started going deep into Docker, Kubernetes, and especially CNPG. I had literally started learning about CNPG only two days before the call. I managed to answer most things, but I messed up one important question - how the CNPG operator is actually written (the Go part, not the YAML).

After that he asked me to explain one of my projects. I went with RedisForge. I was doing okay explaining the structure until we reached a specific part in bloom.go - the Bloom filter initialization with error rate and capacity, where we ignore the "already exists" error to keep it idempotent. I just blanked on explaining that piece properly.

He closed the tab violently. Interview over.

I’m not going to lie, it stung. I had put in the effort to learn CNPG quickly and I could explain most of my own code. But that one gap was enough.

What I’m taking from this is pretty clear though.
Having projects is one thing. Being able to explain the non-obvious parts - especially around error handling and idempotency - under pressure is another.
I clearly need to get better at walking through my own code like I’m explaining it in production, not just when I’m building it.

Also realized that some roles (especially the ones touching operators and CNCF stuff) have a much higher bar than regular backend internships. The "Open Source Intern" title wasn’t casual here.

Still processing it. These kinds of interviews expose exactly where you’re weak, even if you have decent projects. I’ll work on that.

[Soham Shirke @SShogunCodes]

@insanekrishnaa https://t.co/ts1RfmHRnN

[Soham Shirke @SShogunCodes]

@AdityaMandal_ no internship yet 😭

[Soham Shirke @SShogunCodes]

fumbled an open source intern interview very bad.
nothing worst than not being able to explain your own code ngl.

[Soham Shirke @SShogunCodes]

@SatishC2612 i needlessly keep getting selected to unpaid internships, but never a paid one 😭😭

[Soham Shirke @SShogunCodes]

Today marks the day I applied over 120+ internship applications via cold email/dm, linkedin, internshala, YC, wellfound etc.

landed only 1 interview.
internship is cooked in India.

[Soham Shirke @SShogunCodes]

@SatishC2612 we r cooked gang 🥀

[Soham Shirke @SShogunCodes]

Just turned down an internship that wanted:
- 1 full week of "performance evaluation"
- 1 full month of unpaid work
before even considering ₹15k/month for 6 months.

I know how tough the market is right now. A lot of us are desperate for experience and it’s easy to feel like you have to say yes to whatever comes.

But this kind of long unpaid trial period has become way too normalized. Good companies don’t need a month of free work to figure out if someone is decent. They run proper interviews and either pay from the start or keep any unpaid period short and reasonable.

Your time has value, even as a fresher. We shouldn’t have to work for free for weeks just to prove basic competence.

If you’re in a position to walk away from offers like this, do it. Slowly, it changes what companies think they can get away with.

[Soham Shirke @SShogunCodes]

@0xkasana w project idea.
all the best homie
i'll deffo be here everyday to look at the progress

[Soham Shirke @SShogunCodes]

making a URL shortner using this https://t.co/6mIM42xw6J
amazing github repo
will ship it by tonight

[Soham Shirke @SShogunCodes]

@shbhtngpl @theshashwat20 won't debate, W explanation tho

[Soham Shirke @SShogunCodes]

i recently cold emailed a lott of startups, fintechs etc for an internship
and getting noticed feels like an achievement 😭
we in the same boat brother @SatishC2612 🤝

[Soham Shirke @SShogunCodes]

just built a hybrid rate limiter in go because this one question kept running through my mind:

“what if redis is slow or completely down — what does my rate limiter do then?”

most solutions i saw either:
- died completely (api starts throwing 5xxs)
- or became useless (no shared state across instances)

so i built one that actually solves the real problem.
it uses:
- redis token bucket as primary (true shared state)
- local in-memory token bucket as instant fallback
- a real circuit breaker (closed → open → half-open) that automatically detects redis issues, switches to local, and recovers gracefully when redis is healthy again

comes with clean http middleware (proper x-ratelimit-* headers), full test suite, and fresh benchmarks on my machine:

- token bucket → 18.36 ns/op
- local limiter → 66.11 ns/op
- orchestrator (redis hit) → 36.01 ns/op
- middleware → 445.8 ns/op

posting an article about how i made this soon..

https://t.co/RFjFQ4sUoP

[Soham Shirke @SShogunCodes]

@buildwithyash https://t.co/2Ijwsc4S5l

[Soham Shirke @SShogunCodes]

@kartikktwt ngl, everyone's a prime candidate for this

[Soham Shirke @SShogunCodes]

time to start applying for internships.
mandatory:
> go lang
> backend specific role
> minimum 20k stipend (yeah i'm ambitious)
> remote, if not - based in pune/mumbai

[Soham Shirke @SShogunCodes]

@0xkasana @paras_eth w response.

[Soham Shirke @SShogunCodes]

internship pressure got me real good.
couldn't study, couldn't focus, couldn't communicate.

just shut myself off.
was it worth it?

only time will tell.
see y'all tomorrow.
will be posting what I learnt, did etc
the last few weeks