Backend Engineer — building close to the metal
I'm a B.Tech Computer Science student at JSS Academy of Technical Education, and a backend-leaning engineer at heart — I like designing APIs, data models, and services that hold up under real load, not just ones that work on my machine.
Off the clock, I go a layer deeper: Rust, Linux internals, and distributed systems are where I spend most of my "side gig" hours — understanding how a process gets scheduled, how bytes move across a network, and how a cluster of machines agrees on anything at all.
* * * * *Rust— the language I reach for when correctness mattersSystems-level Rust: ownership, lifetimes, and the borrow checker as a design partner rather than an obstacle. Built a POSIX-ish Unix shell from scratch to really internalize process control.
0 * * * *Linux & Systems Engineering— daily driver, not a curiosityKernel fundamentals, process scheduling, the filesystem, and the shell — the layer most backend code quietly depends on. I'd rather understand it than treat it as a black box.
0 0 * * *Distributed Systems— how machines agree on anythingConsensus, replication, and failure modes — the theory behind every backend that has to survive more than one server. Reading papers and building small systems to test the ideas.
An OpenClaw-inspired, AI-powered developer assistant that lives in your terminal — automating workflows, reasoning about your codebase, and executing multi-step tasks without leaving the shell.
A feature-rich Unix shell built from scratch in Rust: quoting/escape parsing, full I/O redirection, pipelines with builtins as stages, background job control, tab completion, and persistent history.
A browser-based AI IDE that runs a real dev environment client-side — in-browser Node execution, an integrated terminal, and local model support for AI-assisted coding.
AI-powered event photo discovery — find yourself in thousands of event photos in seconds using face recognition and vector search over serverless infrastructure.
A real-time collaborative whiteboard and chat platform — multiple users drawing and messaging on the same canvas, synced with low-latency WebSocket connections.
A virtual cryptocurrency trading simulator with realistic market simulation and AI-generated news sentiment driving price action.
Active contributor to Graphite, a project in the Rust ecosystem — shipping features, fixing bugs, and collaborating with the community on design and review.
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