I'm Chirag Singhal — software engineer based in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. This blog is the long-form arm of the oriz family of sites.
What gets posted here
Engineering deep-dives (backend, distributed systems, AI agents), finance writing (credit cards, FIRE, tax, calculators), and book summaries. The common thread: things I've actually used or built.
The oriz family
oriz is the umbrella for everything I publish — a family of static sites that share a sign-in, a design system, and a single principle: useful, free, and quiet. No newsletters you didn't ask for. No popups. No paid tier.
Visit oriz.in for the full directory of sites: book summaries, NCERT directory, India card intelligence, finance calculators, dev tools, and a privacy-first journal.
Day job
Backend systems, distributed databases, and cloud platforms. Off-hours: writing, building these tools, reading.
Contact
Email: whyiswhen@gmail.com. Or use the contact form.