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$ cat rajat_thakur.stats
// years_as_engineer: 10
// years_on_stage: 0 (since 2019-06-06, live)
// favorite_bug: the one that fixed itself
// favorite_heckler_response: "compiling..."
// coffee_to_joke_ratio: 1:1

I spent ten years as a software engineer writing code that occasionally worked and documentation that never did. Somewhere between a 2am production incident and a truly unhinged retro meeting, I realized the funniest material in my life wasn't a bit — it was Tuesday. So I started saying it out loud, on stage, to strangers.

Now I split my time between club sets, corporate keynotes, and writing about the very specific comedy of workplace Slack threads, standups that never stand up, and the eternal question of whether it's a hardware problem or a you problem. Think of me as a stand-up comedian with excellent error handling.

The Origin Story

1994

Born in Himachal Pradesh, presumably already workshopping bits on unsuspecting relatives.

2016

Became a software engineer. Learned that "quick call" never means quick.

2018

First open mic. Bombed spectacularly with a joke about Kubernetes. Kept going anyway.

Today

Still "planning" to quit the day job. Ask again tomorrow — the answer will be the same.

Forever

Comedy. No end date, no version 2.0 — just an ongoing, unpatched production release.