Software engineering, infrastructure, and practical documentation
Arshad Mehmood is a Software Engineer at SAP SE in Germany and the founder of Kookydroid. He holds an M.Sc. in Business Informatics from the University of Mannheim and specializes in cloud-native backend engineering with Go and Kubernetes, DevOps infrastructure, self-hosted systems, and Android development.
This site is my working notebook. I write about incidents I have debugged, tools I have built, and technical details worth finding again. Longer investigations become posts; focused commands and discoveries go into Today I Learned.
What I work with
- Cloud-native backend engineering: Go, Kubernetes, APIs, distributed systems, and production troubleshooting
- Infrastructure and operations: Linux, Docker, CI/CD, monitoring, automation, and self-hosted systems
- Software development: Python, TypeScript, Node.js, Android, and data-backed applications
- Technical communication: practical documentation, incident write-ups, and concise reference notes
Earlier in my career, I published several Android applications and built web and integration projects for clients. That history is collected in the portfolio.
Current work
- SAP SE — backend and cloud-native software engineering
- Kookydroid — the software and Android publishing studio I founded
- Vault Linker — an open-source CLI and Obsidian plugin that creates safe links between related notes
- Today I Learned — a searchable collection of focused technical notes
- This blog — longer guides, incident reports, and honest accounts of what worked and what did not
Why I write
Writing forces vague understanding into something testable. Publishing it makes that work useful to someone facing the same error message months or years later. I prefer concrete examples, commands, trade-offs, and failure modes over generic advice.
Get in touch
You can find my code on GitHub, connect with me on LinkedIn, or send me a message.