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Ashutosh Kumar

Ashutosh Kumar

Backend Engineer · Systems & Performance

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I’m a software engineer who likes to understand how things actually work — from compilers and runtimes to distributed systems and developer tooling. I don’t just wire up APIs; I care about throughput, latency, and correctness. The language is a tool, not the point. If the profiler says the bottleneck is in the allocator, I’ll go read the allocator.

Final-year CS at Manipal University Jaipur. CGPA 8.7/10, Dean’s List. Graduating July 2026. This blog is where I write down what I learn — writing forces clarity, and clarity is half the battle in software.

What this blog covers

  • Systems & performance — profiling, memory allocators, concurrency primitives, and making things fast
  • Backend architecture — API design, database internals, distributed systems patterns
  • Developer tooling — build systems, CI/CD, observability, and the glue that holds codebases together
  • Rust & low-level programming — ownership, unsafe abstractions, and writing code that doesn’t lie to the hardware

Experience

SDE — Performance & Infra Optimization @ BVIRAL

June 2026 – Present · Nashville, TN · Remote

  • Building proprietary video fingerprinting & content-matching systems at scale
  • Designing scalable architecture for distributed video processing & data pipelines
  • Developing high-performance Rust backend components for throughput & latency optimization
  • Profiling and eliminating bottlenecks in video processing pipelines
  • Enhancing observability & telemetry for monitoring and debugging
  • Optimizing cloud infrastructure & data pipelines for cost efficiency and reliability

Backend Engineer & Team Lead @ Bindisa Agritech

May 2025 – July 2025 · Remote, India

  • Led a team of 5 engineers designing and shipping backend APIs for an agritech platform — owned core business logic, database schema design, and system architecture
  • Reviewed and merged 20+ pull requests across the codebase, enforcing modular design patterns, query optimisation standards, and maintainable code practices
  • Profiled and optimised slow API endpoints — identified N+1 query patterns and missing indexes, reducing p50 response latency from ~320ms to ~210ms (35% cut)
  • Planned and executed 2-week agile sprints with daily standups and sprint retrospectives, delivering all 3 milestones on schedule across the 10-week internship

Education

B.Tech Computer Science & Engineering @ Manipal University Jaipur — Expected July 2026 · CGPA 8.7/10

  • Dean’s List — 6th semester (highest GPA)
  • Founded @themankindproject — Rust OSS org building systems primitives
  • 4th / 128 — individual hackathon, MUJ ACM

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