I’m interested in distributed systems, databases, object stores, and real-time architectures.
Former competitive programmer and ICPC regionalist. These days I spend most of my time reading systems papers and designing distributed systems.
writing
view all →My 8GB MacBook Air Gave Up, So I Moved My Brain to the Cloud
Jul 2026How I turned a struggling 8GB M1 Air into a thin client for a 32GB ARM machine on GCP — and the ghostty + tmux + Claude Code workflow that makes remote coding feel local.
LRC vs Reed-Solomon: Erasure Coding Trade-offs in Modern Object Storage
Mar 2026Why systems like MinIO use Reed-Solomon while ACOS opts for Locally Repairable Codes to reduce reconstruction overhead. (This blog assumes you know what's MinIO, if not please go read about it.)
Ceph: A Viable Alternative Object Store
Mar 2026Why Ceph’s RADOS architecture makes it a compelling alternative to MinIO.
projects
view all →A real-time ride coordination platform enabling users to create, join, and share rides
Next.js · Hostinger · React · PWA · Tailwind CSS · Docker and Docker Compose · +6 more