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@maheshbandaruBangalore, IndiaJoined March 2026

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MMaheshmaheshtech.hashnode.devAug 1 · 9 min read

Eleven AWS security questions, and the confident wrong answers

The fastest interview I ever ended took eleven minutes. The candidate said IAM roles and IAM users were "basically the same thing, roles are just for services." That isn't a small gap. It means every

MMaheshmaheshtech.hashnode.devAug 1 · 5 min read

Four days to learn something you should already know

The recruiter email said the second round would cover "distributed systems fundamentals." I had four days and a working knowledge of exactly one distributed system: the one I'd been paid to keep runni

MMaheshmaheshtech.hashnode.devJul 23 · 6 min read

9 System Design Interview Questions Where the Follow-Up Matters More Than the Diagram

I once watched a candidate draw a technically correct architecture for "design a URL shortener" — load balancer, app servers, a database, a cache — in about four minutes, then spend the remaining fort

MMaheshmaheshtech.hashnode.devJul 17 · 7 min read

8 Docker Interview Questions That Separate "I've Used Containers" From Real Experience

I asked a candidate once why his team's Docker image was 1.4GB for what amounted to a fifty-line Flask app. He said "that's just how Python images are," and moved on. It's not how Python images are —

MMaheshmaheshtech.hashnode.devJul 14 · 7 min read

8 GCP Interview Questions That Separate "Deployed a VM Once" From Real Experience

A hiring manager I used to work with had a habit of asking one question early in every GCP-focused interview: "is a VPC in GCP a regional resource or a global one?" Half the candidates got it wrong im

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Four days to learn something you should already know

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8 Docker Interview Questions That Separate "I've Used Containers" From Real Experience

8 GCP Interview Questions That Separate "Deployed a VM Once" From Real Experience

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Eleven AWS security questions, and the confident wrong answers

Four days to learn something you should already know

9 System Design Interview Questions Where the Follow-Up Matters More Than the Diagram

8 Docker Interview Questions That Separate "I've Used Containers" From Real Experience

8 GCP Interview Questions That Separate "Deployed a VM Once" From Real Experience