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.