

Avik Mukherjee
Love to build cool stuff, ship fast, and break things responsibly.
Experience
Sept 2024 - March 2025
Remote
Trainee Engineer
Nov 2023 - Feb 2024
Remote
Mobile Developer Intern
Projects
Blog
How Nixpacks, buildctl, and BuildKit Actually Fit Together
Three tools, one deploy pipeline. What Nixpacks plans, what buildctl sends, what buildkitd executes — and why you need two registry hostnames, a Unix socket, and a Dockerfile you never wrote by hand.
May 24, 2026
Phase 2: I Rebuilt the Build Pipeline, Hardened Everything, and Broke It Again
After the first working preview URL, I threw away the MinIO artifact pipeline, switched to Nixpacks + BuildKit + a local registry, ran a security audit, and spent an evening fixing permission errors that only show up on real projects.
May 24, 2026
I Built a Mini Vercel like Clone in Rust in One Day. Here's Every Mistake I Made.
57 commits. One day. A working local Vercel clone with GitHub webhooks, a NATS build queue, MinIO artifact storage, and isolated Node containers serving preview URLs — the full story and every bug I fixed.
May 17, 2026
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