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    <p class="about-name">Ashutosh Kumar</p>
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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.

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## 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

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## 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

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## 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](https://github.com/themankindproject) — Rust OSS org building systems primitives
- 4th / 128 — individual hackathon, MUJ ACM

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## Find me

- [GitHub](https://github.com/bravo1goingdark)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/ashutoshkumaarr)
- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/bravo1goingdark)