i'm 19, from india, building toward database infrastructure work, mostly distributed systems and the durable, low level stuff that decides whether a system actually survives a crash.
right now that's quorum loro gateway, a crdt sync server built on top of a quorum replicated durable log, and graphshard lab, a sharding prototype for graph workloads.
taught myself most of this by picking a real system, poking at its internals until something broke, then figuring out why.
writeups
01bridging streams and databases into felderahow postgres transactions and kafka partition offsets move into feldera without acknowledging source progress too early.02quorum loro gatewaya durable crdt sync gateway for loro, acknowledging writes only after quorum commit on ursula.03graph shard laba research prototype comparing graph sharding strategies under oltp style workloads.