Personal blog & resume
Kshitiz Shrestha
Senior Software Engineer & Team Manager
Senior Software Engineer & Team Manager building backend systems and cloud architecture. Currently writing about the things I ship.
Right now I'm learning AI from the ground up, in public, one day at a time. Read the AI log →
Mostly writing about:
- Backend systems and API design
- Cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCP
- Go, PHP, and the occasional frontend
- Debugging stories from production
- My career journey, and lessons along the way
- Learning AI from scratch, logged day by day
Recent writing
All posts →July 8, 2026
Java: the language I learned first and never got to use
Java was my first real programming language, taught to me at a small tuition centre called Stosh Java, and I still have never used it in a professional job. Here is why I still keep an eye on it.
July 8, 2026
AI log, day 01: tokens, embeddings, and how a model actually generates text
Starting a day-by-day log of learning AI from the ground up. Day one covers the four ideas everything else sits on: tokens, embeddings, context windows, and how generation actually happens, revisited against a RAG pipeline I already built.
July 7, 2026
Cristiano Ronaldo, out of the World Cup, and out of time
Portugal lost to Spain today and Ronaldo is out of World Cup 2026, probably for good. A personal note on a childhood favorite and the last international game he has left.