Hello there 👋

(But where’s the higher ground XD)

About Me

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/

Engineering philosophy

I focus on:

Correctness under failure
Removing unnecessary work from common paths
API discipline at system boundaries (kernel/userspace, client/server)
Runtime abstraction design

Currently exploring

eBPF runtime layers
TC/XDP classifier design
Scriptable networking paths

Contributions to Open Source

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_PACKET to 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.lock files 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

🗃️ Weekly stats

I like to track my time, Wakatime and this awesome action allows me to do that automatically.

From: 24 March 2026 - To: 31 March 2026

C++     1 hr 48 mins          ████████████████▓░░░░░░░░   66.46 %
Typst   52 mins               ████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░   32.11 %
Other   1 min                 ▒░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░   00.88 %
Git     0 secs                ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░   00.55 %