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Manisha Sarkar

Co-founder & CTO · Oz Lunara

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As Co-Founder & CTO of Oz Lunara, I talk about building with AI agents, shipping production security infrastructure as a DevOps engineer

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System Design Has Changed: What Actually Broke, and What Still Holds

"System design is dead," says the feed. A more careful autopsy from a CTO building with LLMs: the battle-tested toolkit survived, but three assumptions beneath it did not — determinism, predictable cost, and the separation of data from instructions. With real incidents, the patterns that answer each break, and a free 7-day GitHub course to learn the new layer from day zero.

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Career Journey

Life Isn't Fair. I Stopped Waiting for It to Be.

Hundreds of silences for one yes. A pandemic that erased my start, a cutoff missed by half a mark, and door after door shut before I'd finished a sentence. This is how I stopped waiting for life to be fair and started playing the odds instead.

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Career Journey

# Turning Detours into Strengths: My Journey from a Five-Year Career Gap to Co-Founding a Cloud, AI, and Security Company

After graduating with a B.Tech in Electronics and Communication, I thought my path would lead to robotics and chip manufacturing. Instead, a global pandemic, five years of competitive exam preparation, and countless rejections forced me to build a completely different route into technology. This is the story of how those seemingly unrelated experiences became the foundation for a career in cloud, AI, and security—and why I believe no learning is ever truly wasted.

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