ClearTax Engineering

Small decisions matter while coding

While coding, small choices, made with the right intention, can often lead to strange problems some time down the line. I’ve noticed that this usually occurs when you have imperfect knowledge, or when the parts of your systems are not making their intentions clear.

ClearTax’s requirements from a deployment pipeline

This blog post is just about the features we wanted in a deployment pipeline — it’s not exhaustive, and it’s tailored for our needs.

Accounting for Engineers

This was a quick informal session I did internally at ClearTax to explain the basics of accounting to our team.

Accounting for Programmers

A guide to (personal) password security

Or, how the hell would you keep track of all the passwords you need to remember.

(This was supposed to be a short note I had planned to share internally to our team, but ended up growing too large. I decided to post it online in the…

F# 101

We had the first meeting of the Bangalore F# meetup group at the ClearTax office last Saturday.

The first session was by yours truly: F# 101, a hands-on overview of F#. It was conducted in 2 parts:

1. An overview of the language, from the bottom-up. The F# script…

Email Security for startups

On one hand, email is probably your most important channel of communication with users. On the other hand, email is old technology. It was built back in the day when people on the internet trusted each other. Email protocols were not built with security in mind, but over time…