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Hi, I'm Soumendra 👋

📍 Hyderabad, India — 🔭 AI Observability — 🛠️ Backend & Full-Stack Engineer — 🌍 Odia FOSS Advocate

AI Observability Architect at PepsiCo. Building tools for AI reliability, agent observability, and the Odia open-source ecosystem. 16+ years from COBOL to Rust — backend by trade, frontend by necessity.

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• 🔭 Widescope — browser-native LLM trace viewer powered by Rust/WASM
• 🏛️ Openodia — tools, datasets, and AI resources for the Odia language
• 🔤 Shabdarasa — advanced Odia wordle game
• 🌐 Portfolio — personal website, blog, and project showcase
• 💡 TIL — daily learnings on AI observability, infra, and tools
• 🧰 Tools — 43 free single-file browser tools: timers, dev utilities, visual toys, DevOps, finance & writing

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Latest Blog Posts

• Week 33, 2026 - Traces as Documentation, the Observability Land Grab and Search I Host Myself
• How Distributed Tracing Works: Scrub It, Poke It, Break It
• Week 32, 2026 - The EU AI Act as an Observability Spec, Overruling My Research Agent, and Leaving Conductor
• Week 31, 2026 - Consolidating Tools, AI Interview Cheating, and Agents That Delete Your Skills
• Stop Trying to Spot AI Cheating. Design Interviews That Expose Shallow Understanding

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1. Browser-native trace viewer for LLM and AI agent pipelines, powered by Rust/WASM.

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2. An SDK for Python AI Agents. Under heavy development.

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3. Today I Learned — AI observability, infra, tools, and engineering snippets by Soumendra

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4. Open source for the Odia language — tools, datasets, and AI resources for ଓଡ଼ିଆ

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5. Code examples and practical implementations for the blog series "Practical Observability with Python"

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