About

Amsterdam

Currently I happen to be living in Amsterdam

I like building high performance stuff from first principles, often with no/minimal dependencies

recently I’ve been playing with rust

Some things that I’ve built(or am building)

satoriDB: a WIP OLAP distributed database (rust)

walrus: a high performance distributed log based storage system which ingests 1M entries/sec at 1GB/s (rust)

octopii: a batteries-included framework for building distributed systems in Rust

nubmq: a high performance in-mem key value store which outperforms redis (golang)

codespace: an online code execution sandbox built for organising online code competitions

What I do now

Currently I help build Stream, mainly working on distributed systems, scaling to 1B end users

What I used to do

I spent 4 years working at various startups including the likes of Browserstack, working on high performance systems at scale

Philosophy

I believe in understanding systems at the fundamental level, you can build some of the most powerful systems by just keeping it simple and pruning more complexity as you go. When everyone else is adding layers of abstraction, I’m removing them.

Get in Touch

Always interested in discussing hard problems at scale.