Reflections
Post #1: My unregulated ADHD brain, and why I'm failing on purpose
First post. ADHD, never diagnosed, never treated, too many ideas, and trying to fail on purpose until I learn how not to.
10 Nov 2026 · 4 min read
Sai Chand Addanki
Building things, failing at them, and figuring out how not to.
I write down what I try, what breaks, and what I do differently the next time. Kubernetes and cloud notes live in the same notebook.
Lead Architect. Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, automation.
A doodle of the words nailed it, crossed out.
Now
What I'm up to
Building
A two-sided marketplace in India. It connects local businesses and brands with Instagram creators and community pages for paid promotions. A business can hand a creator content to publish, or ask them to come on site and make it. Both sides match, then they work from a clear agreement. It is in progress. I am not going to invent a launch story for it.
Learning
Advanced networking (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS), Azure networking (VNets, peering, ExpressRoute), platform engineering, and Kubernetes internals. The networking work is a lab.
Writing
Notes from labs and from trying to finish things. Drafts stay off the public site until I trust them.
Training
A consistent gym routine, a few sessions a week. Show up, keep the sessions honest, change them slowly.
The lab
Kubernetes, pipelines, and things I broke on purpose
This is the engineering shelf. The projects are labs or still in progress. None of them are products I shipped for a client.
- In progress
Cloud networking labs
Static routes, BGP, OSPF, and IS-IS, plus Azure VNets, peering, and the routes that did not do what I assumed.
- In progress
GitOps CI/CD for Spring PetClinic
A lab pipeline for the Spring PetClinic microservices. Jenkins, scans, Nexus, ECR, and Argo CD on Kubernetes.
- Lab
Kubernetes troubleshooting lab
Online Boutique on a Kops cluster in AWS, with pods, DNS, network policy, limits, and storage broken on purpose.
- Lab
Dynatrace config as code with Terraform
A lab of reusable Terraform modules fed by JSON for alerting profiles, notifications, and anomaly detection.
Work with me
If you want a person in the cluster, say so.
I'm a Lead Architect. I'm open to full-time roles, and to a small number of freelance or consulting projects. No price list. A conversation is enough to start.