Hey, I'm Navkrishna
The person behind PCSalt — adds taste to your computing.
The Journey
I've been writing software since 2013. Started with Android back when it was the shiny new thing in the market — and yes, I'm old enough to have used Eclipse for Android development. If you know, you know.
When Android Studio dropped with Gradle and product flavours, figuring those out was a real adventure. There weren't many answers floating around, so I wrote them down. Got people onboarded to Android Studio, and later when Kotlin came along, I tricked — and then gently forced — people into adopting it.
Over time, my interest naturally shifted to backend systems — where the architecture decisions live and the real problem-solving happens. Android feels like a faded memory now, and Kafka feels like home.
What I Do Now
Lead Software Engineer by title. My day-to-day is Kotlin, Spring Boot, Kafka, MongoDB, and CQRS architecture. A few services run on Node.js — I don't enjoy it, but I do like TypeScript when it's not pretending to be JavaScript.
I like building systems that handle real complexity — event-driven pipelines, domain modelling, the kind of backend work where you actually have to think.
This Blog
PCSalt started as a personal diary. I'd solve a problem, write it down so I wouldn't forget. Then people from backend teams started asking me to put up Android tutorials so they could learn too. So the diary turned into a tutorial site.
The blog has covered Android, Java, IoT, and now it's shifting towards backend development — Kotlin, Spring Boot, system design, and the things I work with every day.
Beyond Code
Developing software is my profession and my hobby. Currently going full speed with Claude Code experiments — it's genuinely fun to push the boundaries of what's possible with AI-assisted development.
When I'm not coding, I like travelling to far-off mountains where there's no network, no notifications, no digital anything. Just silence and peaks.
I also want to read books. Genuinely. But I fall asleep by the end of the first page. Every. Single. Time.
Find Me
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