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About Me

Welcome to my personal page. I'm glad you're here.

I work as a software engineer, with 9 years of experience in data engineering, backend development and ML ops. I'm also a curious lifelong learner, deeply interested in database engine internals, query languages, programming language design, generative AI and natural language processing, etc. I enjoy building hobby projects in this space in my spare time and reading research papers or diving into third-party code to learn something new.
I thrive on thoroughly understanding systems, transforming ideas into successful projects, and will stop at nothing to understand and debug an issue.
I'm passionate about effective communication and collaborating with diverse, cross-functional teams and stakeholders, facilitating inclusive and empathetic discussions, and simplifying complex topics for varied audiences.

At heart, though, I just love building software that is clean, performant, innovative, and pleasant to use.

Projects

What I'm currently working on:

This website -- a single hand-written html file.
Learning compilers, and Rust, at the same time by reading Crafting Interpreters and building Sprout, an experimental relational scripting language.
Reading about distributed systems, programming languages, reactive/incremental logic programming, etc., and discovering various strange and fascinating projects in that space.
Lately I've been getting into generative AI, as has everyone, and working on building chatbots focused around productivity, emotional wellness, knowledge management and tools for thought. Watch this space for further developments.

Readings

Here are some things I've read, or want to read more about, or think are interesting.