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About Me. Systems, Internals & Why.
Backend & distributed systems engineer in Gurugram, Haryana. Obsessed with data durability, replication semantics, and why things get built.
I'm a backend & systems engineer focusing on distributed systems and databases. I have an annoying obsession with details: How memory is partitioned, whether an async flush is actually fsynced to disk, and what happens when an OS kills a socket ungracefully.
I care more about why we're building something than how fast we can glue libraries together.
My first real open source contributions started in 2024, diving into large distributed codebases like Debezium, Kubernetes SIGs Headlamp, and nostream relays. That was where I learned real code reviews, RFC specs, backwards compatibility, and the discipline of writing regression tests before proposing an architecture change.
In 2025, I was selected for Google Summer of Code with MIT App Inventor, redesigning responsive UI architectures on GWT UiBinder and handling gesture abstractions across touch screens. Working on software used by millions taught me that stability isn't optional; breaking changes hurt real users.
In 2026, I completed my second Google Summer of Code with Debezium (Red Hat), building host-based pipeline deployment for Linux hosts and cloud VMs. I worked across deployment-mode selection, OpenSSH configuration parsing, host reconciliation, Ansible provisioning, and concurrency-safe scheduling.
I like being there before anything gets built, figuring out what data durability guarantees we actually need, and if an architecture has a bottleneck, calling it out early. I'd rather ask the hard questions on day one than ship the wrong thing on time.
Right Now
- Building
- My next full-time software engineering or founding systems role, especially where data infrastructure and operational constraints matter.
- Learning
- LSM-tree compaction strategies, Raft log replication mechanics, and Linux io_uring syscalls.
- Experimenting
- Distributed consensus simulators in Go and memory-efficient WAL indexing.
- Interested in
- Engineering teams building database engines, streaming infrastructure, and high-throughput systems.
Education
Starex University, Gurugram
B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering
2023 – 2027
CGPA: 8.34 / 10
Focused on distributed computing, database systems, and low-level networking. Most of my engineering work has been outside the classroom: 64 authored pull requests, 44 merged, across 31 public repositories.
Two consecutive completed Google Summer of Code programmes with Red Hat (Debezium host deployment) and MIT (App Inventor mobile authoring) taught me to work within established architectures and maintainer review.