viveknathani_

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i love to create! https://vivekn.dev/
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Comment · 1 month ago
Location: Bangalore, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Go, Node.js, Rust, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Linux, Docker; Claude Code, Codex, Cursor

Resume: https://vivekn.dev/resume.pdf

Email: [email protected]

Software Engineer with 3+ years of experience building and operating backend and AI systems. I've worked on real-time financial systems, APIs, async pipelines, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS.

More recently, I've been contributing to open-source systems projects and exploring Rust, databases, PostgreSQL internals, and Linux I/O. Looking for my next stint to continue doing backend and AI engineering after a short break :)

Comment · 2 months ago
Location: Bangalore

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe, for the right opportunity Technologies: Rust, Go, C++, PostgreSQL, Redis, Linux, TypeScript

Resume: https://vivekn.dev/resume.pdf

Email: [email protected]

Software engineer with 3+ years of experience across startups, increasingly working on databases, systems, and infrastructure.

I previously cofounded Mars Computers, where I built a low-latency remote desktop system with a custom video streaming pipeline in Rust and worked across networking, OS primitives, and bare-metal infrastructure. I've also built production backend systems involving real-time financial data, PostgreSQL, Redis, WebSockets, and async processing.

More recently, I've been working on database internals and systems: contributing to SlateDB (a Rust LSM-tree storage engine), experimenting with PostgreSQL/Linux I/O and tail latency, and building database tooling.

Looking for hard engineering problems around databases, infrastructure, networking, distributed systems, or systems-heavy backend work. I like going down rabbit holes, understanding why things behave the way they do, and owning things end-to-end.

For more info: https://vivekn.dev

Comment · 2 months ago
extremely creative stuff!
Comment · 2 months ago
great reading list, but also a great career arc OP! loved skimming through your site!
Comment · 4 months ago
adoption of pgrx, durable execution becoming popular - good things! but not a fan of keeping complex flows inside the DB
Comment · 5 months ago
makes sense!
Comment · 5 months ago
interesting approach, was exploring a Postgres to Clickhouse CDC setup while helping a team sometime back, this seems better as it allows separating the compute (query server) and storage (s3) layers, and thereby allowing us to be creative in cost reductions
Comment · 5 months ago
huge +1, i also just hate reading large HTML reports that AI spits out.

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