What I'm doing Now

Work

Software Engineer at Aiden Innovation, building Cycle Sathi, a cycle-rental platform, from the ground up.

• Responsible for the system design and system architecture of Cycle Sathi
• Building the web admin dashboard and the client app
• Working closely with the IoT engineer to integrate the backend with cycle locking, sensor data storage, trips, ride history, and route tracking
• Built the cycle reshuffling logic between stations

Learning

• System architecture and design for systems that scale
• Distributed systems: replication, consistency, and fault tolerance
• PostgreSQL in depth: indexing, transactions, and query optimization
• Event-driven architecture and message queues with RabbitMQ
• Low-level programming in C++ and Zig
• AI engineering: building agents and LLM-powered apps that are reliable in production

Reading about

• B-trees inside PostgreSQL
• Change data capture (PostgreSQL WAL → Debezium → RabbitMQ → PostgreSQL)
• Query optimization
• MVCC & isolation

This is a now page. For the longer story, see my experience or read the blog.