About

The full picture behind the work

Engineer at the core. I enjoy building systems that are scalable, reliable, maintainable, and easy to reason about. This site is a collection of system design notes, lessons from real production work, things I've built, and the non-engineering interests that keep me curious.

I write here instead of platforms because I prefer owning my work, thinking in longer form, and revisiting ideas as my thinking evolves.

Current role

Senior Software Engineer at Zonda, Austin, TX. Previously Software Engineer III and Software Engineer II on the same team.

Previous roles

  • Research Software Engineer II, BigLAB — Florida
  • Software Development Engineer, Clari5 — Bengaluru

Education

  • Master of Science, Computer Science — Florida State University
  • Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science — Visvesvaraya Technological University

Research publications

Stack

  • Core Interests: Backend Engineering, Distributed Systems, Platform & Infrastructure, AI Systems
  • Languages: Java, Go, Python
  • Databases & Storage: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, CockroachDB, Pinecone
  • Cloud — AWS: EC2, ECS, SQS, S3, CloudWatch, Bedrock, SageMaker
  • Deployment & Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD Pipelines, Grafana, Loki, Prometheus
  • AI Engineering: Agentic Systems, Embeddings & Vector Search, Function Calling, Open-Source LLMs, Fine-Tuning (LoRA), LlamaIndex, LangChain
  • Search & Indexing: Lucene, MongoDB Atlas Search

Resume

My full resume is available on request — no signup needed. View the resume page.