Anirudh Rowjee

Hi! I'm Anirudh. Welcome to my home on the internet. Halt, weary traveller, and rest your eyes;

Yoshida Hiroshi, Rapids at the Upper Reaches of Tone River, 1928- Wikimedia Commons

I'm a Computer Scientist / Software Engineer focussed on Database Internals and Distributed Systems (currently working at Couchbase on Magma), poet, runner, metalhead, and occasional photographer. I founded and run Bengaluru Systems, a community of people interested in learning how the infrastructure of our connected world is built.

I find great joy in understanding, finding, and implementing creative solutions to all sorts of hard and interesting problems. Some things I enjoy are:

Figuring out and Implementing a solution for a problem
Figuring out a tricky software bug
Finding common threads between old and new ideas
Finding the perfect rhyme for the next line of my poem
Finding and mentoring the right team to build something
Bringing people together towards a certain goal

In my free time I enjoy distance running, reading (fiction, non-fiction, and fantasy), playing the guitar, long walks, trying out new places to eat, and learning new things.

I am deeply passionate about Distributed {Systems, Databases}. If you'd like to talk about this (fair warning: I will engage), please reach out! You can also see my proof of work.

Some Things I Believe

I'm a firm believer in having a growth mindset. The evolution of the human race is rooted in an acceptance of, and an effort to, change; to believe that we can't change ourselves is defeatist and harmful.

I strongly recommend that everyone read "Deep Work" by Cal Newport, "Mindset" by Dr Carol Dweck, and "Dopamine Nation" by Dr Anna Lembke. Each of these books have fundamentally changed my outlook on life and myself, and I think these should be required reading for anyone trying to succeed in our connected and fragmented world today.

This website

I try to write more often, even if it isn't extremely high quality. What I do end up writing ends up here.

Welcome to my corner of the internet. Here is a map of this website, and some specific subpages -
technology travel research poetry talks

Now

Software Engineer on the Storage Team at Couchbase, working on Magma
Writing a newsletter on the distributed systems and databases space once every ~~two weeks~~ so often (read the first edition here)
Building Bengaluru Systems
Running thrice a week, training for an eventual half marathon
Running Couchbase's internal Research Paper Reading Group, and reading a lot of research papers
Working on reading and writing a little every day