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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Software development · September 2026 · 8 min read
Stop Handing Your AI Agents (and Your Deploy Scripts) the Keys to Everything
Personal access tokens give deploy scripts and AI agents unlimited blast radius. The fix is short-lived GitHub App tokens minted per deploy and revoked seconds later.
Read article →System design · September 2026
End-to-End Encryption vs Encryption at Rest
Encryption at rest and end-to-end encryption are not the same promise. A practical design for real E2E data storage, and the tradeoffs most...
System design · September 2026
Break the Glass, Not the Trust: A Developer's Case for Structured Data Access
How the "break-glass" exception process resolves the oldest tension in software delivery — the need for real data versus the need to protect...