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// NOW

WHAT I'M UP TO.

A living snapshot — updated when things change. Inspired by Derek Sivers' /now movement.

// CURRENT STATUS
🏗BUILDING
PR Sentinel — an AI pull-request reviewer: parallel agent waves, a commit-keyed GitHub cache, and a live review dashboard
📖LEARNING
Distributed systems design — reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications
📍STATUS
Open to SDE-1 full-stack & backend roles · Remote preferred · India OK
🎓EDUCATION
MSc Computer Science (2026) · BSc Computer Science (2024)
OPEN TO BACKEND ROLES

Open to SDE-1 full-stack & backend roles. Remote preferred, India WFO considered.

// BUILDING

PR SENTINEL.

An AI pull-request reviewer that runs as a GitHub App. A verified webhook queues the review on BullMQ; an orchestrator plans it and runs specialised agents in parallel waves with permission-scoped tools, caches immutable git data by commit SHA, and posts line comments back to the PR — with a live Next.js dashboard streaming every run.

// LEARNING

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS.

Reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann — working through the replication, partitioning, and consistency chapters. The QuizBuzz load-testing session surfaced a class of failure (data stranded in the wrong backing store during a topology change) that DDIA covers rigorously. Going through it as a way to put first-principles vocabulary on patterns already encountered in production.

ReplicationConsensusCAP TheoremEvent SourcingCQRSDistributed Transactions
// STATUS

OPEN TO ROLES.

MSc and BSc in Computer Science, with 1.5 years of full-time production experience building backend systems, infrastructure, and async job pipelines. Targeting SDE-1 full-stack and backend roles at startups — teams building real infrastructure where backend reliability matters. Remote preferred; open to WFO in India.

// CURRENT STACK

WHAT I'M WORKING WITH.

BACKEND
Node.jsTypeScriptExpressPrismaPostgreSQLZod
ASYNC & INFRA
BullMQRedisDockerAWSTerraformGitHub Actions
FRONTEND
Next.jsReactTailwind CSSFramer MotionTanStack Query