Anirudh Rowjee
Tōkyō jūnidai, Fukagawa Kaminohashi by Kawase Hasui - Wikimedia Commons
Welcome to my corner of the internet. Here is a
map of this website, and some specific subpages -
technology travel research
poetry talks
I'm an engineer, poet, writer, and sometimes, a photographer.
I enjoy building (tech, communities, relationships), solving problems, reading, writing, playing badminton, and jamming out to all
sorts of music. See my proof of work
I am deeply passionate about Distributed {Systems, Databases}. If you'd like to talk about this (fair warning: I will engage), please reach out!
I strongly recommend that everyone read Deep Work by Cal Newport at least once.
Now
- Software Engineer on the Storage Team at Couchbase, working on Magma
- Helping build Bengaluru Systems Meetup
- Trying to play Badminton 🏸 at least thrice a week
- Building one new project a month, mostly in the DB/Dist Sys space - recent projects include
- The Raft Consensus Algorithm
- Skiplists
- LSM Trees
- A simple Query Engine
- Reading Database Internals and lots of research papers
Writing
Fair warning - you will find incomplete posts on this website. That's by design.
2025-01-11 2024 - a year in review
2024-10-13 Sketch your side projects
2024-10-01 Understanding and Implementing Skiplists
2024-07-28 Why Systems?
2024-06-30 Using GNU Stow
2024-05-23 The Mechanix of Software Engineering
2024-03-23 Refactoring a Large Function in Go
2023-05-30 A summary of "Error Handling in Rust"
2023-05-27 Saaru - Rust India May 2023 Meetup
2023-04-14 You Wouldn't Unlock a Mutex!
2022-12-03 Building Github bots with BunSamosa Bot
2022-07-31 Understanding MapReduce
2022-06-27 Dubai in Pictures - Part 1
2022-05-28 reclaim
2022-04-28 Rustlang 101
2022-02-02 Git Up and Running (Git 101)
2022-01-10 Fixing a Bug in Meilisearch
2022-01-03 What you can learn from Failure
2021-12-29 Boxes
2021-02-03 Decorators by Example in Python 🐍 🍩