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  1. aasheeshrathour · · focus · HN ↗
    Location: Delhi, India

    Remote: Yes

    Willing to relocate: Yes

    Technologies: Go, distributed systems, storage engines, Linux internals, io_uring, concurrency, TCP, mmap, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, systems programming

    Résumé&#x2F;CV: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drive.google.com&#x2F;file&#x2F;d&#x2F;1f9Hq8gj2uXhPOO5LHXJ9c6s8uJZ393Po&#x2F;view?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drive.google.com&#x2F;file&#x2F;d&#x2F;1f9Hq8gj2uXhPOO5LHXJ9c6s8uJZ...

    Email: ashishrathour1102@gmail.com

    GitHub: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AasheeshLikePanner" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AasheeshLikePanner

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    Backend and infrastructure engineer focused on systems programming and production reliability. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at a YC-backed startup, building infrastructure for AI agents and durable user workspaces.

    Recently built persistent sandbox infrastructure with directly mounted durable storage, reducing workspace setup from ~70s to ~10s and recovery from ~486s to ~14s while preserving user sessions across restarts and code updates. Also redesigned workflow synchronization, multi-client streaming, and CI test execution.

    Selected projects:

    vase — A Go pub&#x2F;sub broker built on a lock-free ring buffer. 62x faster than Redis at 100 subscribers (111k vs. 1.8k msg&#x2F;s), with zero message loss across 5 million messages at 1,000 subscribers.

    iouring-wal — A write-ahead log built in Go directly on io_uring raw syscalls, without external libraries or CGo. 5.5x faster than naive fsync at 64 concurrent writers, with SIGKILL-tested crash recovery.

    lsm-tree-go — An LSM-tree storage engine with bloom filters, sparse indexing, leveled compaction, and crash recovery. Profiled from 250k to ~2M writes&#x2F;sec using pprof and achieved 5x BoltDB throughput on random writes.

    I write about the engineering behind my projects at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@ashishrathour1102" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@ashishrathour1102.

    Looking for backend, infrastructure, distributed-systems, storage-engine, or systems-programming roles.

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