Proof of Work

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I Value proof of work more than certifications or any other such credential or metric that can often fall prey to Goodhart's Law. Along those lines, here's my proof of work, a comprehensive record of what I've been up to (also partially inspired by Manas Saloi's POW).

Proofs appear in reverse chronological order.

2024

⚙️ Started Bengaluru Systems along with my friends!

Bengaluru Systems Meetup is a new meetup and community in Bengaluru which is a...

meetup about databases, distributed systems, dataflow systems, and compilers, in Bengaluru!

🛋️ Became a full-time engineer at Couchbase

I work on the Storage team, working on Magma, our latest LSM-Tree based Storage Engine.

Published my first research paper at ICBDA 2024!

More details TBD.

🛋️ Started an Internship at Couchbase!

Joined Couchbase as a Developer Intern.

Started an internal research paper reading group
Wrote a parallel load testing tool that hit ~200,000 Ops/sec on an M3 Pro with 36GB RAM
contributed to the AI journey of the company by ideating on and building proof of concept applications using Couchbase Vector Indices

2023

🛁 Started building Jacuzzi

Jacuzzi is a concurrent Database Page Cache. It's built to avoid multiple rounds of Disk I/O by caching pages in userspace.

Finished Capstone Project on Benchmarking Time-Series Databases for Observability Workloads

⏰ Gave a Talk on Lamport's "Time and Clocks" paper at College

This was pretty fun, and given how well-written the paper was, I didn't need any slides to explain things.

📝 Presented a Paper at the Distributed Systems Reading Group

I presented the Oakestra paper, which focusses on an alternative to Kubernetes for the Edge.

🔍 Gave a Talk on Vector Databases

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Picture Credit: Harini Anand

⚡ Gave a Lightning Talk at GopherCon India 2023

Doing a completely unplanned Flash Talk turned out to be more fun than I expected.

The talk was about how I used Raft to implement a clone of Kafka (with a restricted subset of features) for a college project, bypassing an extremely expensive zookeeper implementation to achieve better fault tolerance and lesser manual supervision for scaling up and down.

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🔁 PESU Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Level 2 (Aug-Dec 2023)

I finished Level 2 of CIE's course, which covers starting and running a "Lean" startup. The course focussed on customer discovery and Lean validation, and included lots of hands-on customer discovery and interaction.

👨‍🏫 Teaching Assistant, Big Data at PES University (Aug-Dec 2023)

Responsibilites included -

Creating problem statements for assignments and projects (implementing joins through mapreduce, implementing a distributed load testing tool using Kafka)
Helping conduct live sessions and hands-on demonstrations of various tools and programs used
Grading and Evaluating projects and assignment submissions
Helping clear student doubts

⚙️ Systems Engineering Intern at Bytebeam (Jun-Aug 2023)

At Bytebeam, I worked on a number of projects, including -

Highly Parallel MQTT load testing utility in Rust: Designed and Implemented a highly parallel load-testing utility for MQTT Brokers in Rust
Next-Generation Distributed MQTT Broker in Rust: Designed and Implemented components of a distributed commit-log based MQTT Broker in Rust

🥼 Became Lab Head at PES Innovation Lab

I became one of five Lab Heads at the esteemed PES Innovation Lab.

🗣️ Talks

I was invited to give a bunch of talks, specifically at -

Rust Bengaluru May 2023 Meetup on Saaru - material here
FOSS United Bengaluru Meetup on "The State of FOSS at Universities in the 2020s"

💻 Started Building Saaru

Saaru is a static site generator written in Rust, and it's been used to generate the blog you're reading this site on! Check it out on Github, and feel free to look at the documentation.

2022

Tech Lead - Hacknight 4.0

Led a team of developers and maintainers as part of ACM PESUECC's Hacknight, also architected and implemented BunSamosa-Bot, the official event bot.

Rustlang 101

Conducted a workshop on Rust with PES Innovation Lab

Golang 101

Conducted a workshop on Golang with Hackerspace.

Vice-Chairperson - ACM PESUECC

I was appointed Vice-Chairperson of ACM PESUECC.

Attending Meetups and Conferences

Attended and participated in Deepsource's .meetup series and IndiaFOSS 2022

Project Intern at PES Innovation Lab (Jun-Jul)

Here, I worked on a project called PseudoDeploy, which uses Kubernetes to automate and enhance the Federated Learning Research Process and experience. The process involved diving deep into Kubernetes as well as the Flower framework for federated learning. Bonus fun part - getting to setup a mini kubernetes cluster from scratch!

PESU Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Level 1

I finished Level 1 of CIE's course, which detailed all the basics of starting up, straight from idea generation to the basics of financial knowledge required, along with a healthy dose of hands-on activities.

Student Developer, Microsoft Technology Center Bengaluru

Here I worked independently on the setup and implementation of an Azure-Enabled Hydroponics Monitoring System. I was involved in both the hardware and software sides of this project, and I used Azure tools and technologies such as Azure {Event Hub, IoT Hub, Stream Analytics, Power BI} to implement it. Some parts are discussed here.

2021

Contributed to Meilisearch

LaunchPad 2021

Organized and Conducted an Ideathon supported by PESU Venture Labs

Tech Lead: HackNight 2021

Led a team of developers and open-source maintainers to conduct HackNight, ACM PESUECC's annual Hacktoberfest event. Implemented and Optimized Chick-bot, the official event bot.

Git Up and Running 2021

Conducted a workshop on Git, and taught 200+ students about the basics of contributing to open source.

Core Team Lead, HackerSpace PESUECC

I was appointed the founding core team lead of HackerSpace PESUECC, which is a student-driven developer and Open-source community. As of the date of writing this, HackerSpace ECC is now a vibrant and well-known fixture of the PESU Student Community, comprising of more than 35 Staff members.