(But where's the higher ground XD)
- IIT Kharagpur 2024
- Systems and infrastructure engineer focused on operating systems, distributed systems, and kernel/cloud-native internals
- Active open-source contributor to etcd, kernel-adjacent runtimes, and low-level tooling
- Technical notes and experiments: https://sneaky-potato.github.io/
I focus on:
- Correctness under failure
- Removing unnecessary work from common paths
- API discipline at system boundaries (kernel/userspace, client/server)
- Runtime abstraction design
- eBPF runtime layers
- TC/XDP classifier design
- Scriptable networking paths
Lua In Kernel - Kernel Adjacent Lua Runtime
- Added support for non-shared objects within shared classes, bypassing unnecessary object locking #434
- Eliminated index-based method dispatch by eagerly wrapping class methods at initialization, reducing allocations in hot paths #410
- Added LLDP example using
AF_PACKETto demonstrate low-level packet I/O #341 - Standardized raw socket patterns for safer reuse #360, #364
- Enforced explicit (protocol, ifindex) pairing in raw socket
bind()for API correctness #378
Etcd - Distributed Key-Value Store (CNCF)
Contributions across robustness testing, authentication, client behavior, and server internals:
- Improved client-server authentication for client managed JWTs #20747, #20802
- Removed duplicate delete/compact operations in robustness tests, reducing linearization cost #20877, #21043
Trivy - Security Scanner
- Fixed Java dependency analysis by excluding development dependencies from Gradle lockfile #8803
- Updated documentation to clarify handling of development dependencies in Gradle lockfiles #8830
- Added support for parsing
bun.lockfiles to improve Node.js ecosystem coverage #8851 - Implemented vulnerability analysis for Bun lockfiles in Node.js projects #8897
Rust-GCC Rust Frontend by GCC
- Check for deprecated attributes #432
I like to track my time, Wakatime and this awesome action allows me to do that automatically.
From: 12 April 2026 - To: 19 April 2026
Go 1 hr 4 mins ██████████████░░░░░░░░░░░ 55.52 %
Lua 17 mins ███▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 14.94 %
Other 16 mins ███▒░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 13.89 %
Markdown 12 mins ██▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 10.49 %
C++ 2 mins ▒░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 01.98 %