Hello! Nice to see you here. 👋

I’m a software engineer with interest in distributed systems, parallel systems and databases.

I love topics around systems engineering and am currently excited about :

• concurrent and parallel programming
• distributed systems
• operating systems
• database internals (especially OLAP systems)

My Journey

I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Pune, complemented by a PG Diploma in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning from IIIT Bangalore.

This blend of math and programming has shaped how I approach problem-solving, enabling me to work across diverse domains, from low-level systems programming to large-scale distributed systems.

I have been programming since I was 9. I started with C and HTML. I have worked on systems and codebases written in - Java/Scala, Rust and Python. A small stint of 1 year with C++.

I began my professional career in 2017, working on a wide range of projects, from developing scalable web scrapers and computer vision solutions to building data engineering pipelines and a distributed SQL query engine.

I like building systems. Lean, fast, and scalable systems. I hate writing bloated software.

My software writing philosophy is getting influenced by -

• Unix philosophy : Write programs that do one thing and do it well.
• TIGER_STYLE and Hard-Mode Rust.

I love teaching. I sometimes teach at Empowered Coder. I have taught courses on Rust, Distributed Systems, and Operating Systems. I have also taught a data science course as a visiting faculty at Fergusson College.

I like evangelizing and have spoken at various meetups and conferences. I have spoken at Rust Pune, FOSS Pune, Rust Bangalore and Rust Mumbai meetups.

I love sharing things I learn and work I do on my blog and X.

Topics I’m Excited About

Mathematics:

• Real Analysis
• Calculus
• Game Theory
• Probability and Statistics

Computer Science:

• Distributed Systems
• Database Internals
• Operating Systems
• Parallel Programming

Open Source

I love contributing to open source projects. I think open source is a great way to build software.

I am working on projects like -

• Apache Datafusion-Comet: It is a Spark Accelerator written in rust and scala.
• raft-rs (maintainer and author): An understandable, fast, customizable and scalable async-await Raft consensus algorithm implementation with zero-copy and self-healing storage.

I’ve also made minor contributions to Apache Iceberg-rust and ParadeDB.

Reach out to me

• most accessible on email: vaibhaw [dot] vipul [at] gmail [dot] com