I am a software engineer and engineering leader passionate about applied AI and databases. Currently, I am a Principal Engineer II at Razorpay, working at the intersection of Data and AI and building Agent Studio, which enables merchants to create AI agents while we provide the infrastructure to run them reliably.
Previously, I was a Staff Engineer at Google, where I worked on GCP Memorystore and GCP Dataproc. On the side, I am building - DiceDB which is fork of Valkey with multi-tiering and query subscriptions. I also spend time on independent research, publishing my work on ArXiv. My areas of interest include databases, approximate algorithms, and distributed systems.
In 2024, I took a leap of faith and co-founded Profile.fyi, which was later acquired by Mercor. I was part of Amazon's Fast Data Team, where I worked on cold tiering of hot data and developed a seamless query interface across all storage tiers.
I held engineering leadership positions (both IC and management) at Unacademy, where I built, grew, and led Search, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams, and Data Engineering teams. I hold a total of 12+ years of experience in scaling backend services, taking products and teams from 0 to 1, and beyond.
I keep diving deep into engineering details and share my learnings across my socials and through 250+ no-fluff engineering videos on YouTube, breaking down System Design, Database Internals, Microservices, BitTorrent Internals, Redis Internals, Research Papers, and the trade-offs behind real-world production systems.