Tuhin Mahmud.
— rhymes with “too thin.”
Engineer, founder of Aethera Labs. I build the kind of infrastructure you forget is there — which, on a good day, is a compliment.
A long apprenticeship in shipping things, followed by the strange privilege of trying to build a company that ships them better.
I started at Skyranko and didn’t quite leave for five years. Picked up Python, then a small team, then the infrastructure underneath them, and most recently the company built on top of the whole stack. Each step mostly snuck up on me.
Those years taught me the patient kind of shipping — the sort where reviewers cover for you while you catch up, and the deploy that breaks at 11 p.m. teaches you something the unit tests politely declined to. I’m grateful for both halves.
These days I’m at Aethera Labs. We build cloud infrastructure, AI systems, and developer tools designed to disappear into the background — what we call the invisible layer. Cloudraptor is our first product: deploys without the DevOps tax. It’s early. The shape changes weekly. Ask me again in a year.
AI does a fair bit of the lifting now — drafting code, reviewing diffs, the glue between things. What I learned the slow way at Skyranko is mostly when to trust the output and when to throw it back. The fundamentals haven’t become less useful; they’ve just changed jobs.
- → Drafting deploy primitives at Aethera
- → Reading more papers, writing fewer slides
- → Open to the occasional interesting conversation
Same chair. Different name on the door.
- 5years
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- 2companies
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- 5chairs
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- ∞lessons in public
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2025 — now
the founder year
Founder & CTO @ Aethera Labs
Building cloud infrastructure, AI systems, and developer tools meant to stay out of the way. Cloudraptor is our first product — a deploy platform for teams who’d rather not run their own DevOps. Early days. We’re figuring most of it out as we go.
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2024 — 2025
the deploys-at-midnight year
DevOps @ Skyranko
Containers, CI/CD, and the slow craft of making deploys boring. Plenty of mistakes, plenty of late-night Slack messages, plenty of lessons. Docker · Kubernetes · Terraform · Actions.
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2022 — 2023
the meeting-was-the-work year
Lead Developer @ Skyranko
Coordinating a small team while still writing code. Spent more time on reviews and roadmaps than I expected, and learned a lot from the people I was supposedly leading.
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2021 — 2023
the catching-up years
Python Developer @ Skyranko
Internal automation, small APIs, a handful of data pipelines. A lot of it was learning on the job, with patient reviewers covering the slack while I caught up. Python · FastAPI · Postgres · Celery.
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2020 — 2021
a sideways start
Script Writer @ Skyranko
Wrote video voice-over scripts and product copy for client work — a short stretch before I moved sideways into engineering.
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2021 — 2025
B.Sc. in Software Engineering @ Daffodil International University
Coursework alongside the day job; finished the degree without quitting the chair.
Tools I reach for, listed by familiarity, not by fashion.
Python, TypeScript, Go, Bash, SQL.
— the keyboard reaches for these on its own.FastAPI, Node, Hono, Postgres, Redis, Celery.
— the boring, dependable layer.Cloudflare Workers (R2 / D1 / KV), AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes.
— where Cloudraptor lives.GitHub Actions, Docker, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Linux.
— how I sleep through the night.Technical writing, mentorship, roadmapping, listening, hiring.
— harder to grep for, easier to feel the absence of.Rust on the edge, WebGPU, Durable Objects.
— currently breaking things on purpose.The door’s open. Mostly.
Happy to talk shop, share notes, or hear what you’re building. Especially partial to early-stage infrastructure questions, weird hiring conversations, and anyone who still writes long emails.
— T.