My name is Parijat Mishra. Welcome to my personal site. Everything here is my own opinion and not the views of my current or former employers.

I currently work as Field CTO at Sonar, the creators of SonarQube, SonarCloud and SonarLint. My job is to talk to our customers on the one hand, and our engineering, marketing and sales on the other hand, and try to make our products more useful and accessible to all.

Before this I was a Head of Engineering at Hyphen Group (now [MoneyHero Group]) where I managed multiple teams that managed the company’s internal and external facing technology infrastruct. Prior to that I was Head of Technology at Amazon Web Services Singapore (where I managed a team of stellas Solutions Architects). Look at my LinkedIn Profile if you want to know more about my career.

In and out of work, my two favorite activities are to ask “How can we make this better?” and “How do we make this problem go away?”. I look for answers in technology. Over the years I have come to realize that the correct application of technology to solve the right problems, and doing so in a sustainable way, is more important than the technology itself.

The title of my blog is a whimsical reference to The Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics. There are a few reasons this term appeals to me:

  • “Quantum mechanics is perhaps the most successful theory in the history of science… But it is also a theory that challenges our imagination.” I find that the world of cutting edge technology, such as cloud computing, is similar: almost no one disputes that some technologies would be very beneficial to their organization and business, but there is a need to explain them in terms that people can easily understand–and sometimes those explanations are counter-intuitive to people used to the “classical” way of doing things.
  • There is no definitive historical statement of what the Copenhagen Interpretation is. Various people have tried to synthesize some principles, attributing them to Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. However Bohr and Heisenberg has significant disagreements (as well as agreements) in their views. Similarly, there are many technology movements that practitioners are trying to define, in an evolving manner.
  • While there have been objections to some of the Copenhagen Interpretation’s principles, it is the most widely accepted label that physicists give to their own views. Similarly, technology “paradigms” like cloud computing, micro-services, serverless computing etc. have different definitions and principles, with most people largely agreeing on a core set of beliefs, but disagreeing about some of them.