Hi!

I am currently a grad student at UIUC, pursuing my MS (Thesis track) in Computer Science who is deeply fascinated by Distributed Systems and building systems that cater to modern AI workloads and applications. In that vein, my current research with Prof. Ram Alagappan and Prof. Aishwarya Ganesan in the Distributed and Storage Systems Lab (DASSL) focuses on building high performance and distributed vector databases.

Interestingly, my original love for computing systems started with Quantum Computing but has since then pivoted into distributed systems — a non-exhaustive list of interests include using Algebras for distributed computing, measuring, modelling and predicting performance using analytical models such as Queuing Theory, reasoning about different consistency models and consensus mechanisms given technical, and sometimes even social constraints of the system, and building self stabilising systems. These are areas I find extremely exciting and I’m hoping I can share some of that excitement through this forum and learn, unlearn and relearn in public.

You can find me hanging out in open source communities like Kubernetes project, where I am a maintainer of the project’s storage layer and help out in areas of API Machinery, Scalability, Architecture and Contributor Experience. I am also one of the Technical Leads of SIG Contributor Experience and a GitHub Admin for the Kubernetes project.

Outside of systems, I love talking about philosophy, how communities function and how we can build accessible and equitable communities.

If you’ve interacted with me, you probably know I geek out very easily over everything, so if you’d like to chat about things you find cool or interesting, bounce ideas off me, or just about anything, let’s chat!