About

I am Vatsalya Goel, a software engineer based in Melbourne with a long-running interest in security, cloud infrastructure, and the strange ways systems fail.

This site is my field notebook. I use it to write down debugging stories, security engineering notes, cloud lessons, and the occasional opinionated take on developer workflows. The useful parts of engineering often sit between the official docs and the incident timeline; this is where I try to capture those parts before they disappear.

I started caring about security through CTFs and security research while studying Software Engineering at Monash University. That interest has stayed with me because security is most useful when it is practical: built into how teams design, ship, operate, and troubleshoot software.

What I write about

• Security engineering and defensive design
• Cloud infrastructure
• Debugging real production failures
• Infrastructure as code and deployment sharp edges
• Developer workflows, source control, and engineering habits