i have 4+ terminals open right now. each running claude code in bypass permissions, each on a different project. two are running experiments in independent worktrees, two i’m babysitting to fix prod … [… 620 more words]
curious, builder, explorer
22, swe 2 @atlanhq , creator @snaildb , maintainer @ag2ai (formerly AutoGen) the open-source AgentOS with 700k+ monthly downloads, speaker at conferences, workshops.
ive worked at multiple startups - built -1 to 0 and also 0 to GA. i live where ai agents and data systems collide.
im deeply inspired by a quote, heard from Alexander Wang (scale AI) → “rational in the fullness of time”
i post and explore a lot about databases, and not just your regular swe, im really in the pursuit of greatness (jk)
*i love lower case, please dont mind
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joined atlan as intern in jan started working on ai search taught AI for 30 days at mahatma gandhi university hyderabad got converted to full time (swe) in march gifted myself a costly watch bought my … [… 95 more words]
im sharing this purely from my journey of going from a software engineer intern in jan 2025 to swe 2 in sept 2025, which is not a regular curve for most of the engineers, but what actually mattered … [… 870 more words]
i decided to experiment with building a key-value store in rust as a fun project to both learn the language and dive into writing the low-level data structures and algorithms used in databases. … [… 3303 more words]
something which i’m observing in myself is: when i try to read, chat with ai to understand a concept at a deeper level, why does it fade away much faster than what i’ve just written down and put some … [… 360 more words]
Bf-tree decouple cache pages from disk pages, it no longer has to mirror disk 1:1 lets understand a little deeper: problem with B-tree, data lives in fixed size pages (4kb), buffer pool caches whole … [… 158 more words]
first of all, im very inspired by @samlambert, ceo of planetscale. i was curious enough to explore the planetscale.com (fastest dbs available in cloud with their fast NVMe drives) and found something … [… 750 more words]
hey, i was trying out the composer 1 in cursor, and was trying to understand how is inference super fast and even the code is very accurate at the same time, and how much does it cost (interms of gpus … [… 640 more words]
there are many ways to roll out a new product, feature or even a new version of an existing product to the users. but orgs often face challenge when the scale of users is very high, which they dont … [… 343 more words]
inspiration: you already know, im diving deep into ann indexes, and was looking into turbopuffer architecture - which points me to SPFresh making me very curious to know how it works. SPFresh is a … [… 436 more words]
inspiration - im working on vector, hybrid search for data catalogs and got curious about the different index structures used at scale. firstly, what is ann index? approximate nearest neighbor index, … [… 390 more words]
i lately feel, i need to pause for a moment and feel grateful for what i have. what im able to do. this feeling hit me when i spent last 2 days with my grandma at a hospital. i saw so many people … [… 61 more words]
an index is a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval operations by providing quick access to specific information without having to search through every piece of data. (Eg, a books … [… 210 more words]
i always felt, talking about my goals and the future plans was making me less motivated, and i was not able to focus on doing the actual work. ive been thinking lately why is this happening. ive come … [… 133 more words]
even i thought i know how databases work, but i was wrong until i read about the wal. thought, this is how it works: ( user/api request ) -> ( operation (insert, update, delete) ) -> ( db (write to … [… 249 more words]
this is post the OA and the screening round. take home assignment # the unique hiring process of the atlan.com, validates its candidates on the technical expertise and understanding of the systems and … [… 565 more words]
If you are an AI developer or building a SAAS wrapped around AI foundational models, its really necessary to think about spending a lot of money on LLMs without any prior knowledge on how to reduce … [… 283 more words]
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