Platform 2026
lightweight-IaaS-platform
A miniature VPS provider — instance lifecycle, static IP allocation, background workers and monitoring.
- TypeScript
- LXD
- Redis
- BullMQ
- Workers
Software Engineer · India
Prateek Yadu I work one layer
below the product.
Software engineer focused on Linux, infrastructure and networking. I build and operate the systems that sit under the product — monitoring, deployment, and the parts nobody sees until they break.
- Years of Experience
- 1+
- Projects built
- 4
- Observability tools
- 5
- Home turf
- Linux
Currently
Building a lightweight IaaS platform to understand how VPS providers really work.
01 Selected work
Things I built to understand things
Mostly infrastructure — control planes, APIs and the layers that make a machine useful.
API 2026
libvirt-http
A REST API over libvirt, built on the libvirt-go bindings.
- Go
- libvirt-go
- REST
- KVM
02 Writing
Notes from the terminal
Things I got working and wanted to leave a trail for.
4 min
[Security Matters #1]: Introduction to SSH Keys
Password logins invite brute force. SSH keys remove the password entirely — here is what they are, why they are safer, and how to set them up in a few minutes.
- SSH
- Security
- Linux
03 Toolbelt
What I reach for
Infrastructure
- Linux
- Ansible
- libvirt / KVM
- Networking & VPN
- Nginx
- Shell Scripting
Observability
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Loki
- Zeek
- Rclone
- Otel Traces
Languages
- Go
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- SQL
Platform
- Docker
- Git
- Jenkins
- Node.js
- MongoDB
- Postgres
Get in touch
Got something running on a server?
I'm always up for talking about infrastructure, Linux, or a problem that only shows up in production.