I'm a backend engineer focused on distributed systems and storage internals. I build things I can explain from first principles — no black boxes.
Currently deep in: Go · Kubernetes · OSS infrastructure
The anchor project is ZENITH — a distributed hybrid search engine written entirely from scratch in Go. No Elasticsearch. No Lucene. Every layer is handwritten: an LSM tree with WAL + SSTables + Bloom filters, an inverted index with BK-Tree fuzzy matching, sentence-transformer embeddings fused with BM25 hybrid ranking, gRPC transport. Prometheus instrumentation in progress.
| 📦 Project | 📜 Lang | ⭐ Stars | 🔀 Forks | ℹ️ Issues | 📬 PRs |
| ⚡ ZENITH — distributed hybrid search engine · LSM + WAL + Raft + BM25 |
OSS is how I learn — I read the codebase, find something broken or improvable, and fix it. A few notable contributions:
| 📦 Repo | 📜 Lang | 🔧 What I did |
| internetarchive/Zeno | Race condition fix + rate limiter improvement · PR #578 | |
| supabase-community/supabase-go | SDK improvement · PR #51 | |
| kyverno/kyverno (active) | Policy engine · Chainsaw · kyverno-json · policy-reporter · 50+ PRs target by Oct 2026 |
Targeting LFX Mentorship Term 3 2026 (application opens August 3) and GSoC 2027 through sustained Kyverno contributions.
Now → Q3 2026 CKAD certification
Q3 2026 Kyverno OSS sprint — 50+ PRs
Q3 2026 CKA certification
Q4 2026 LFX Mentorship Term 3 application
2027 GSoC 2027
2027 Backend infra internship at a product company
I write about what I build — storage engine internals, search algorithms, OSS contribution patterns. One post a month. No tutorials. Just implementation notes.
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Open to backend infrastructure, distributed systems, and DevOps internships · Kolkata, India


