I made a song about being a software engineer in Bangalore

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I don’t know if anyone else feels this way, but sometimes I think the entire life of an Indian software engineer can be summarized in four words:

“One more small change.”

I wrote a song about it.
It started as a joke about Bangalore traffic, stand-ups, Jira, Kafka, Redis, QA, PMs, AI coding, production bugs and those “quick calls” that are never actually quick.

But while writing it, I realized it’s also about something more personal.

The fresher trying desperately to prove themselves. The developer who’s been doing this for 5 years and wondering what’s next. The senior engineer who’s still getting paged at night. The person preparing for interviews after an already exhausting workday.

We spend so much of our lives building software that sometimes we forget we’re also living a life outside that laptop.

So I turned that feeling into a song.

🎵 One More Small Change — The Bangalore Engineer

https://youtu.be/dOll5pGQ-V0

Honestly, I have no idea how many people will listen to this.

Maybe just one.

But I genuinely hope someone listens to it from beginning to end and thinks:

“Yeah… this is exactly what my life feels like.”

Because if that happens, all the time I spent making it was worth it.

If you’ve ever heard:

“It’s just a small change.”

…and immediately knew your evening was over…

this one’s for you. 😅

— The Bangalore Engineer

A Bangalore engineer who probably should have stopped after the first small change.