Amitav Roy
I help engineering teams design systems that scale.
17 years building production systems across fintech, e-commerce, and SaaS. I write about system design, architecture decisions, and the patterns that keep software running at scale for engineering leaders and developers.
Consultant · Architect · Speaker
What I write about
System Design & Architecture
How distributed systems fail, scale, and recover.
Multi-cloud strategy, database design patterns, and race conditions at production scale.
Read system design articles →Software Engineering & AI
Building with modern tools, done right.
AI-assisted development, MCP integrations, and Laravel delivery practices.
Read engineering articles →Practical How-To Guides
Solutions to real problems. No filler.
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System design · June 2026 · 8 min read
Field-Level Encryption With Searchable Blind Indexes: A Practical SOC2 Control Worth Understanding
Most security controls protect the perimeter. Field-level encryption protects the data itself. Using CipherSweet's blind index approach, you can encrypt sensitive columns at the application layer and...
Read article →System design · June 2026
Human Adoption Is a Design Requirement, Not a Post-Deployment Fix
Most digital transformations don't fail at the architecture layer. They fail because the system never matched how people actually work. I've...
Software development · May 2026
Your Codebase Has Three Readers Now — and One of Them Is an AI Agent
AI agents are reading your codebase. The question is whether it's written for them.