I like the layer most people never look at: packets, queues, backend bottlenecks, and the one lock quietly undoing all your parallelism.
Third-year B.Tech CSE at VIT Bhopal, graduating October 2028 (expected). I write the spec before the code, measure before making claims, and leave the wrong turns in the decision log. Future me deserves an explanation.
AQoSE — a flow-level adaptive QoS controller that configures Linux CAKE. CAKE schedules the packets; AQoSE makes the flow-level decisions.
The runtime moved from Go to Rust; Go and Python remain for references, experiments, and ML tooling. Validation includes component benchmarks, fault injection, an independent watchdog, and a six-hour soak. Component speedups stay component speedups.
The next rabbit hole is encrypted traffic: real WireGuard, synthetic applications, namespaces, and separate-kernel VMs. Changed packet sizes and background traffic broke the models; hidden inner-flow hashes in namespaces made isolation look better than it was. Preliminary lab research. The failed experiments belong in the notebook too.
Wildbook · open source for wildlife research
- #1739 — taxonomy editing with object-level authorization, encounter consensus, and 18 JUnit tests. Merged October 23, 2026.
- #1736 — fixed co-occurring individuals showing the wrong sex and location. Merged August 28, 2026.
FOSSEE, IIT Bombay · fellow, May–July 2026
Led eSim on Cloud's schematic-editor migration from mxGraph to React + SVG, keeping the legacy save format and downstream API contracts intact. My favourite migration is the one the next module never notices.
OpenAir — peer-to-peer file transfer and device continuity, built with Go and Kotlin. QUIC, pinned device identities, and a slightly unreasonable amount of protocol documentation. No cloud in the data path.
Go · Rust · Python · Java — plus Kotlin, TypeScript, and SQL.
Linux, TCP/UDP, QUIC, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, React, and Django.
Specs, benchmarks, tests, and the occasional red pen.
Because technology should not just exist for those who could afford it.
The cat came from the portfolio. It has reviewed none of this.