Roshan in aviator sunglasses

// about.me

Hi, I'm Roshan. 💜

Universe Caller · JavaScript Alchemist · Enterprise Architect. I build data things for enterprises, community for students, and odd little experiments for myself. This page is the long version.

The story so far

  1. ch. 01

    From the southern tip

    I'm from Thuckalay, Kanniyakumari, about as far south as India goes. That's where I figured out that computers would do what I told them. Mostly.

  2. ch. 02

    Becoming a Basher

    In engineering college I discovered I liked building people up almost as much as building software. So I started Byte Bash Blitz, a student dev community, wrote a handbook for it, and mentored 50+ juniors through their first commits, hackathons and panics.

  3. ch. 03

    The Web3 detour

    My final-year project was a blockchain voting dApp. It taught me hashing, consensus and that explaining proof-of-work to examiners is its own boss fight. I'm still Web3-curious, just with fewer buzzwords.

  4. ch. 04

    Enterprise data, by day

    These days I build enterprise data solutions on Power Platform, Dataverse and Azure. Big systems, real users, unforgiving data. I love it, and it's where most of my brute-forcing happens now.

  5. ch. 05

    Side quests, by night

    After hours it's Kotlin Multiplatform experiments, Bun, harmonica tabs that compile, and too many repos named something-test. 70 public repos and counting. Not all of them are good. All of them taught me something.

Character sheet 🎲 d20 system

Name
Roshan Lal J
Class
Data Alchemist
Level
5
Alignment
Chaotic Curious
Home
The DIAverse
CUR19+4Curiosity
BRF20+5Brute-Force
CHA17+3Community
DAT16+3Data Wrangling
PAT9-1Patience
SLP6-2Sleep
Special abilities
  • Summon Dataverse. Bends enterprise data to their will (via the Web API).
  • Rally the Bashers. +5 morale to every junior dev within 10 metres.
  • Harmonic Debug. Plays a blues riff until the bug gets bored and leaves.
Inventory
Laptop with 4 code editorsC harmonicaGuitar (dusty)Infinite chai70 repos
Multiclass: Bard (harmonica)

* stats rolled by Claude. Disputes go to the guestbook.

Things you might not know

🏷️

The "DIA" in my handle is a whole universe. My GitHub bio literally says "We are not apart in DIAverse".

🎹

I play harmonica and guitar. One of my repos turns songs into harmonica tabs, because of course it does.

🔤

My old site title was "May Brute-Force be with you". I stand by it.

🧑‍🍳

My avatar wears a chef hat. I am not a chef. The hat stays.

🗳

My most-starred repo is a college blockchain voting app. The internet has spoken.

🟣

Yes, everything is purple. Even my hair streak, if you look at the avatar.

📍 Right now
  • 📚 Studying for DP-600 (Fabric Analytics Engineer)
  • 🛠 Building akashaDesk: Kotlin Multiplatform + Bun + FastAPI
  • 🎵 Learning harmonica bends (the neighbours are thrilled)
  • 🪐 Rebuilding this site into the DIAverse
💬 Ask me about
Power Platform & DataverseStarting a student communityKotlin MultiplatformBlockchain, minus the hypeHarmonica for programmersMicrosoft Learn & MLSA
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