Talks

I give talks on storage engines, search systems, and software design, focused on how systems actually work under the hood.

If you are organizing a conference or internal tech talk, feel free to reach out.

Storage Engines & Databases

A practical way to evaluate database claims using real storage engine patterns.

Where: GoConIndia 2024
Audience: Backend and systems engineers
What this talk covers:
- Common claims databases make about durability and read/write optimization
- How to evaluate those claims critically using real design patterns
- Core storage engine patterns: WAL, fsync, B+tree, bloom filters, LSM trees, WiscKey
Key takeaway: Every database makes claims. “Durable writes.” “Fast reads.” “Horizontal scale.” But do you know what’s actually happening underneath? This talk gives you the vocabulary and the patterns to stop taking those claims on faith, and start evaluating them yourself.
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Workshops

Learn Rust by building a tiny concurrent cache, treating the Standard Library as a mentor.

Where: Rust India Conference 2026
Format: Hands-on workshop
Audience: Engineers with basic Rust knowledge looking to go deeper into systems programming
What this workshop covers:
- Memory allocation and ownership in Rust
- Zero-cost abstractions in practice
- Concurrent data structures: design and implementation
- Building a working concurrent cache end to end
Key takeaway: Building a tiny concurrent cache is a journey of countless design choices. But when you treat the Standard Library as a mentor and base those decisions on its idioms, you are adopting the collective engineering wisdom of the Rust community. The next time you are stuck on an architectural problem in Rust, don’t just reach for a crate. Look at the source. The blueprints for your solution are likely already sitting in your std library, waiting to be adopted.
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