A collection of essays and technical guides spanning product management, autonomous Artificial Intelligence, developer platforms, corporate strategy and infrastructure security — written from firsthand experience leading teams at Meta, Dropbox, 1 IPO'd and 2 Private Equity-acquired startups across developer platform software and Internet infrastructure behind the Consumer technology companies.
A comprehensive framework for building developer and AI platforms.
It introduces principles for platform PMs to define vision, measure success, and ensure adoption.
Key topics:
- Setting vision, strategy, and guiding principles for internal platforms
- Using the QUANTS framework to measure developer success
- Prioritizing roadmap features via research-backed problem sizing
- Creating timelines using Leverage × Velocity tradeoffs
- Go-to-market alignment across engineering, product, and sales
“While every platform is unique, it shares evergreen priorities: developer experience, delivery, and reliability.”
A reflective essay on corporate reinvention and product-led strategy.
It draws from Vik’s experience transforming Keynote Systems from a narrow SaaS product into a broader customer experience management platform — leading to IPO and acquisition.
Key ideas:
- How “experience” can trap strategy in the past (“We don’t do that”)
- CEOs and PMs must act as revolutionaries, not caretakers
- Case studies: Slack’s future-first approach, Twitter’s broadcast roots, Microsoft + Salesforce’s reinvention through acquisition
- Lessons from leaders like Nadella, Benioff, and Jack Dorsey
- Core maxim: Disrupt yourself before anyone else does.
“Your company may be a prisoner of its own product history — act before history writes your fate.”
A hands-on Linux/Apache hardening guide based on real-world incident response.
Covers manual and automated defense methods against intrusion attempts.
Key sections:
- Discovering intrusions in Apache and system logs
- Blocking malicious IPs using
ufwand.htaccess - Automating bans via Fail2Ban with custom filters and jails
- Matching and syncing bans between Fail2Ban and UFW
- Scripts to identify and block repeat offenders
“Your firewall is only as smart as your log analysis — automate both.”
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Vik Chaudhary
Product, Engineering & AI infrastructure leader. Formerly at Meta and Dropbox.
Writes about platform strategy, developer experience, and modern cloud security.
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