What I work with
Experience
NITK Surathkal (Under Prof. Mohit P. Tahiliani & Prof. Saleem Bhatti, University of St Andrews)
Research Assistant
July 2025 - Present
Research assistant at NITK Surathkal working on ILNP and MPTCP congestion control over FreeBSD. Set up and maintained a testbed, designed network topologies, and ran controlled experiments to study protocol behavior under mobility and multihoming. Working closely with the ILNP research community to validate results and contribute to ongoing protocol development.
EmployWise
Software Engineer Intern (Remote)
Jan 2026 - Apr 2026
Architected and built two production microservices for EmployWise's HR platform — a Biometric Attendance Manager and an Integrations Manager — enabling real-time attendance sync and flexible API/webhook integrations for enterprise tenants.
Verint Systems
Summer SDE Intern (On-Site)
May 2025 - Jul 2025
Built data-driven alerting and deployment systems across Golang, Datadog, Python, React.js, AWS Bedrock, and Harness, improving reliability, reducing noise, and streamlining containerized delivery pipelines.
Tata Communications
Undergraduate Project Intern (Remote)
Feb 2025 - April 2025
Collaborated and developed a high-performance QUIC-based tunneling solution using the Picoquic library in C, significantly improving network reliability and optimizing bandwidth in low-connectivity environments.
Hyperswitch
Open Source Contributor (Remote)
October 2023
Improved connector reliability, enhanced search functionality, and strengthened debugging across the Rust-based open-source payment orchestration system.
Projects
Highly Scalable URL Shortener
A highly scalable URL shortener built with Rust for fast performance, Redis for quick lookups, and Docker with Nginx for efficient deployment. It features a TypeScript frontend and is designed for high availability, low latency, and seamless user experience.
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Autoencoded Image Transfer
An autoencoder-based image compression and transfer system achieving 12:1 compression and enabling 10× faster transmission of 256×256 color images across a network — designed for efficient, real-time image sharing over constrained bandwidth.
Learn MoreBlogs
2025-05-02
Scalable High Performance URL Shortener
My experience building a highly scalable high performance productiuon grade URL Shortener in Rust
2025-04-27
The Evolution of Bitcoin Transactions: A Journey Through Time
Explore the milestones in the evolution of Bitcoin transactions, from its humble beginnings to the cutting-edge innovations of today.
2025-04-10
Simulating a Buffer Overflow 101
An introductory dive into how buffer overflows work, how to simulate one safely, and what makes them dangerous in low-level systems programming.