I'm Piyush — a backend infrastructure engineer based in Santa Clara, CA, currently building scalable, cloud-native platforms at Arista Networks. I spend my days deep in the guts of distributed systems — service meshes, container orchestration, network data planes, and the long tail of failure modes that come with them.

• 🔭 Working on — production-grade k8s + Istio platforms, and AI agents that triage incidents the way a senior on-call would
• 🌱 Learning — eBPF dataplane acceleration, agentic workflows, and the open-source EDA toolchain
• ✍️ Writing — latest post: Why Traditional Alerting Is Broken — And How AI Agents Finally Fix It
• 🃏 Off-shift — poker (cash & MTT), long walks around the Bay, the occasional algo-trading rabbit hole
• 📫 Reach me — piyushbag.com · pbag@alumni.scu.edu

name:        Piyush Bag
role:        Software Engineer @ Arista Networks
location:    Santa Clara, CA  🇺🇸
education:   M.S. Computer Science, Santa Clara University
focus:       backend · cloud-native · distributed systems · AIOps
interests:   [k8s, service-mesh, observability, ai-agents, open-hardware]
side-quest:  building tools for the open PCB / EDA ecosystem
motto:       "debug the system, not the symptom"

_{Languages · Cloud-Native · Data · Observability · Frontend bits I touch on the side}

🔭 awesome-pcb-workflow is my current favorite hobby project — curating the full open-source PCB pipeline (schematic → SPICE → SI → layout → DFM → fab CI/CD → hardware test), OrCAD- and KiCad-friendly.

A few projects I've been pushing PRs and issues into lately:

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I'm always up for a chat about distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, AI-augmented ops, or open hardware — or a friendly cash game if you're in the Bay Area.

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