Tias Mondal
Build. Create. Explore.
Data Engineer, Aspiring AI Engineer, Product Builder, Traveller, Content Creator and Lifelong Learner.
I build systems to understand the world, and I explore the world to find what’s worth building.
Current Focus
BUILDING
A RAG-ready personal knowledge assistant
LEARNING
Distributed systems design patterns
READING
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
PHOTOGRAPHY
Long-exposure cityscapes, Kathmandu
TRAVEL PLANNING
Ladakh, late 2026
AI RESEARCH
Retrieval strategies for small corpora
Featured Work
Latest Journal
ENGINEERING
Why I stopped mocking the database
A production incident taught me more about integration testing than three years of tutorials.
6 MIN READ · 2026-07-02AIWhat building a fake AI assistant taught me about the real one
Designing the mock forced architecture decisions I would have skipped otherwise.
5 MIN READ · 2026-06-24Photography
Travel
GITHUB ACTIVITY
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