Hi, I'm Ashish Choubey

Senior Full Stack Engineer @ LinkedIn — Building infrastructure solutions at scale 🚀

With 6+ years of experience in backend and full-stack development. Expertise in designing, scaling, and leading large-scale platforms and customer-facing systems. Skilled in Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, and modern frontend frameworks.

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Open Source

Apache Pinot - PR #14663

Open source contribution to Apache Pinot, a real-time distributed OLAP datastore. Contributed improvements and enhancements to the project.

JavaApache PinotOpen Source

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Open Source

Grafana - PR #118246

Open source contribution to Grafana, the open source analytics and monitoring platform. Contributed improvements and enhancements to the project.

GrafanaGoTypeScript+1

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Open Source

Grafana Backup Tool - PR #5

Open source contribution to Grafana Backup Tool, for backing up and restoring Grafana dashboards, datasources, and other configurations. Contributed improvements and enhancements to the project.

GrafanaBackup ToolOpen Source

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Personal Project

LilyGo EPD47 Property Display

Custom firmware for LilyGo 4.7" e-paper display (EPD47-S3) that shows property information with Hindi date, moon phase, and touch-triggered jokes. Built with C for ESP32-S3.

CESP32E-Paper+1

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Personal Project

Grafana Backup DB

Schema-agnostic MySQL/SQLite backup tool — auto-discovers tables, exports rows as JSON, compresses into timestamped archives. Works for Grafana or any MySQL database. Multi-database support, batch row fetching, and manifest file in every archive.

PythonMySQLSQLite+1

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Blog PostDebugging

The Byte That Froze My Display

A single malformed UTF-8 byte froze an entire e-ink display. No crash, no error — just an infinite loop. This is the story of how a bare continuation byte exposed a parser bug in embedded firmware.

March 11, 2026

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Blog PostHistory

From ASCII to UTF-8: How Text Learned Every Language

From 128 characters in the 1960s to every writing system on Earth. The history of text encoding, why UTF-8 won the internet, and what happens between bytes and the pixels you read.

March 11, 2026

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How an E-Paper Display Keeps Time: The RMT Peripheral Story

E-paper displays need microsecond-accurate electrical pulses to move ink particles. This is the story of how the ESP32 RMT peripheral generates those pulses, and what broke when Espressif rewrote the driver API.

March 12, 2026

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