Avik Mukherjee
Love to build cool stuff, ship fast, and break things responsibly.
Experience
Software Engineer
August 2025 - Present
Hyderabad
Software Engineer Intern
April 2025 - August 2025
Remote
Sept 2024 - March 2025
Remote
Trainee Engineer
Nov 2023 - Feb 2024
Remote
Mobile Developer Intern
Projects
Blog
How a Man-in-the-Middle Proxy Actually Works: Building Network Interception from Scratch
Building a MITM proxy in Go to understand HTTP intercession, TLS certificate spoofing, and how to inspect encrypted traffic. Line-by-line breakdown of the concepts that power debugging proxies like Fiddler and Charles.
Apr 5, 2026
Summary of Quantization from the Ground Up by Sam Rose
A practical, interactive breakdown of quantization: float formats, symmetric vs asymmetric mapping, quality loss, and throughput gains.
Apr 2, 2026
Second Book. Minimal Modeling by Alexey Makhotkin.
A complete breakdown of Alexey Makhotkin's Database Design Book — every chapter, every principle, every pattern, from logical models to physical schemas.
Mar 29, 2026