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Foundry alpha — fixing the launcher race condition
Vamshi Krishna V. — API & cloud architect
Eleven years shaping enterprise systems. By day, leading API integration at Birlasoft × Synchrony. By night, building Foundry — a launcher and stack-tracker for builders — and writing Loomwork every Sunday.
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I hired my own AI to hack my product. It found 19 ways in.
An 11-dimension adversarial audit against my own platform, with every finding forced past an independent skeptic whose only job was to disprove it. 59 raw claims became 19 real ones. Four rules came out of it — including the one that stung: a comment claiming a protection that was never there.
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ShippingFoundry alpha — fixing the launcher race condition
Writing№ 016 out — I hired my own AI to hack my product. It found 19 ways in.; № 017 Sunday
ReadingA Philosophy of Software Design, Ousterhout
Day-jobTechnical Lead & Architect · Synchrony
Stuck onWhy my retry policy keeps double-firing on cold starts
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Self-audit findings
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01MindloomHQA structured curriculum from Python to production AI agents — 10 phases, 19 courses, a lesson-aware AI tutor, an in-browser sandbox. I built the engineering side; the business operates as a separate principal.Next.jsTypeScriptSupabaseVercellive
02FoundryA launcher and stack-tracker for builders running too many tools. Solving the "40-tool problem" — the cognitive overhead of remembering which subscriptions, which projects, which keys. Documented week-by-week in Loomwork.Next.jsTypeScriptTauriPostgreSQLwip
Timeline
What I'm on now →Apr 2026Started Loomwork & building FoundryWeekly Sunday newsletter from a builder with a day job. Foundry — a launcher and stack-tracker for the 40-tool problem — is in active alpha, documented week by week.present
2025MindloomHQ — Creator & Technical contributorA structured curriculum from Python to production AI agents — 10 phases, in-browser sandbox, lesson-aware AI tutor. I built the engineering side; the business operates as a separate principal.now
Sep 2023Technical Lead & Architect — Birlasoft × SynchronyAPI Integration Lead for Synchrony — a Fortune 500 financial services company and the #1 Best Company to Work For in the U.S. (Fortune · Great Place to Work, 2026). Lead architecture and delivery across 5 agile teams; own enterprise API platform on Java, Spring Boot, Apigee, and AWS. Spearhead application migrations and data governance for systems that cannot afford to fail.present
Jan 2021Technical Specialist — Birlasoft × SynchronyLed API modernization and cloud migration to AWS and PCF. Owned solution design reviews, mentored developers, and partnered with business teams to ensure compliance and regulatory alignment.Sep 2023
Mar 2018Senior Software Developer — BirlasoftDesigned and built APIs and microservices for financial applications. Worked extensively with Kafka, messaging systems, and early cloud migration projects for enterprise clients.Jan 2021
Apr 2016Senior Software Applications Developer — CenturyLinkEnterprise Java APIs for telecom domain solutions. Requirements analysis, messaging systems, and system integration work improving scalability across distributed platforms.Feb 2018
Jun 2014Senior System Software Engineer — Great-West FinancialBackend applications in Java and Pro*C supporting financial and retirement systems. First financial-domain engineering — where the habit of boring, reliable infrastructure took root.Mar 2016
2014First commit, professionallyJava, a monolith, and a deep curiosity that hasn't wound down.now