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| 🔴 🟡 🟢 arpan@pathak — zsh |
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| ~ $ whoami |
| Arpan Pathak |
| Systems Software Engineer · 8+ yrs |
| Rust · Go · C++ · Kotlin · Python |
| Amazon → Oracle → Microsoft |
| |
| ~ $ motto |
| "Never settle, always regret, |
| then refactor the mess." |
| |
| ~ $ wisdom |
| "Age gele baaghe khai" |
| আগে গেলে বাঘে খায়
| (rush ahead and the tiger eats you) |
| |
| ~ $ _ |
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$ whoami
Systems engineer, 8+ years: Amazon → Oracle → Microsoft.
I make databases faster (lock-free), networks safer (eBPF/Cilium),
and ML inference cheaper (100ms pipelines, 5k QPS serving).
$ cat interests.txt
Rust • Systems Programming • Distributed Systems • Computer Vision
LLM Inference • Game Physics • Computational Geometry • Kubernetes
$ philosophy
"Never settle, always regret, then refactor the mess."
"Age gele baaghe khai" — আগে গেলে বাঘে খায়| Layer | Weapons of choice |
|---|---|
| Languages | Rust, C++, Go, Kotlin, Python, Java, TypeScript, C |
| Systems | Lock-free data structures, memory safety, kernel/eBPF, low-latency |
| Networking | TCP/IP, UDP, TLS/mTLS, HTTP/2/3, gRPC, QUIC, Cilium, XDP |
| Distributed | Kafka, Flink, Spark, consensus/replication/sharding, CDC |
| ML/AI | PyTorch, TensorFlow, BERT, ONNX Runtime, edge inference, CUDA |
| Cloud | AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS), Terraform, Kubebuilder |
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⚡ gpu-parallel-book CUDA · GPU · Rust · 16-chapter book |
🚗 civicsense-vision-model Rust · on-device AI perception |
📚 seeing-machines-book Python → Rust · CV book |
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🦀 jobsense-parker Rust · job-hunt CLI |
🐘 multicloud-distiller Rust · distill LLMs on 6 clouds |
🎮 bevy-physics-book Rust · physics in Bevy |
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☸️ kube-goAt Go · Kubernetes IaC |
🎛️ andross C++20/23 · low-latency Vision/AR SDK |
🔍 systems-patterns Go ⭐ · systems hands-on |
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🔐 zero-trust-networking Go · Cilium · K8s zero-trust |
🥊 FightClub_600 Interview prep · 5 languages |
🧠 AdvancedAlgoPatterns Kotlin · DSA patterns |
…plus 30+ more repos: distributed systems, ML notebooks, music & audio, websocket scaling, QUIC tools, NFC + e-ink hardware, and a Neovim agentic IDE.
🏆 Flagships: gpu-parallel-book (CUDA, GPU & parallel programming, Rust + CUDA-Oxide, 16 chapters) · seeing-machines-book (computer vision, Python → bare metal) · deepseekcoder-multicloud-distiller (distill LLMs across 6 clouds with full data sovereignty) · bathroom-singing-cli (bathroom vocals → full production music, in a TUI)
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🚿 bathroom-singing-cli TUI studio · bathroom vocals → production |
🌀 nirvoid Rust · audio processing library |
🎧 audio-stem-splitter Rust · vocals → stems (Demucs) |
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🎼 gen-music-models generative ML · music, art, poetry |
🎛️ audio-ml audio EDA · ML models |
➕ more repos systems · ML · hardware |
| Company | Role | Impact |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft | Software Developer II | Led legacy C++/C# → Rust migration: 40% lower P99, 2× throughput, 3× less memory, 6-figure savings. Built AI policy engine + zero-trust sovereign networking (eBPF/Cilium). |
| Oracle Cloud | Senior Software Engineer | Lock-free DB internals: +45,000 ops/s. Terraform provider for Autonomous DB (~$1.2M/mo savings). |
| Amazon | SDE II | Real-time ML ranking (XGBoost + DL): 100ms latency, 5% CTR lift, $5.4M/mo revenue. BERT inference @ 5,000 QPS. Petabyte-scale data platform. |
| Razorpay | SDE | Go UPI gateway: 1M+ hourly transactions, 99.99% uptime. |
LinkedIn · YouTube · GitHub · 📧 arpan.pathak47@gmail.com
Currently: engineering systems that make AI fast, safe, and affordable — and writing books about how it all works.