The 45-minute problem nobody was solving
I'm not an engineer. I'm Praveen B Ballari — a finance professional and product builder based in India. I don't write production code. I don't run on-call shifts. But I've watched engineers do it, up close, enough times to see a pattern that frustrated me deeply.
Production goes down at 2AM. The engineer opens six tabs — Datadog, logs, Slack, runbooks, GitHub, the deployment history. They stare. They correlate. They guess. They test. Forty-five minutes later, they find it. A single config change. One line. Something that, in retrospect, was obvious.
And the whole time, a thought kept coming back to me: why doesn't something just tell them what it probably is?
I'm not the first person to notice this. But I might be the first person to build a solution as a non-engineer, with no team, no funding, and no infrastructure budget — and ship a working product in under two weeks.
OperatorMesh is my answer to that 2AM problem. Paste your logs. Get a root cause in 3 seconds. Not perfect. Not autonomous. Not a replacement for your brain. Just a fast starting hypothesis — so you spend 3 minutes triaging instead of 45.