About WhatBroke

Production stories back at the center of technical communities.

WhatBroke was created to bring production stories back to the center of technical communities. Too often, engineering events focus on polished outcomes and ideal architectures.

But the most valuable lessons come from the challenges teams encounter along the way — the incidents, trade-offs, security decisions, and unexpected failures that shape real-world systems.

The goal is simple: create a trusted space where practitioners can learn from each other's experiences and build stronger systems together.

Founder

Built by practitioners.

Saritha Jain — Founder / Chief Convenor of WhatBroke
Founder / Chief Convenor
Saritha Jain

Started WhatBroke to bring honest production stories back to the security and infrastructure community — the incidents, trade-offs, and lessons that shape the systems engineering teams actually run.

Founder of NicheBytes, a niche technical talent partner specialising in Cloud, DevOps, and Cybersecurity across European SaaS and scale-ups. 12+ years embedded with engineering teams at Zoho, Worldline, and PowerToFly, building practitioner networks across the EU/UK technology ecosystem.

Advisors

Sathish Nagarajan — Advisor at WhatBroke
Advisor
Sathish Nagarajan

Founder of Pinrom. 20+ years in SaaS and technology.