About

I’m Himanshu Kumar — most people know me as nycanshu online. I’m a Software Engineer at Tower, working primarily on backend systems with Java (Spring Boot) and Node.js/TypeScript.

What I do

I build backend services, SDKs, and infrastructure tooling. I’m particularly interested in distributed storage systems (Ceph), Kubernetes, and developer experience.

Some things I’ve shipped:

• radosgw-admin — A zero-dependency Node.js SDK for the Ceph RADOS Gateway Admin API. Built with TypeScript, AWS Signature V4 auth, dual ESM/CJS. (wrote about it on dev.to)
• componentverse — Power Platform Components Library for Canvas app developers
• Various freelance projects spanning healthcare management, loan systems, and data processing tools

This blog

This is my personal space to write about what I’m building, learning, and thinking about. No single topic — whatever’s interesting.

The blog itself is built with Astro and a custom theme called “The Void.” It’s also available as a template with attribution.