Database Internals
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books
Designing Data Intensive Systems
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papers
MultiPaxos made complete
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PBFT
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portfolio
Scalable Retrieval with Project Gutenberg
Built an embeddings-based retrieval prototype and a simplified HNSW-style ANN index; instrumented time/peak-memory to study scalability tradeoffs.
Traffic Accident Detection & Tracking on Google Maps–Style Data
End-to-end incident detection from noisy user reports + GPS-derived travel times using hypothesis tests, SPRT, ARIMA forecasting, and changepoint detection.
Multi Paxos
A crash fault-tolerant banking app using Multi-Paxos for state machine replication.
Domain-Specialized NanoGPT
Trained and analyzed small NanoGPT models across Shakespeare/Wikipedia/Math with zero-shot + few-shot transfer, softmax confidence tracking, and Grad-CAM–style token attribution.
Linear PBFT
A replicated banking service implementing Linear PBFT (collector-based BFT) with PBFT view-change for Byzantine fault tolerance.
RAG Retrieval over the SciPy Codebase
Built a scalable retrieval pipeline (chunk → embed → FAISS) to answer natural-language questions over SciPy’s docs and source code.
Rule-Based Toolformer (Tool-Using Chatbot)
Built a simplified Toolformer-style assistant that routes queries to tools (math, maps, file search) and uses a lightweight local LLM to format tool outputs into user-friendly answers.
Scalable Bank
Scalable fault-tolerant banking using 2 Phase Commit for cross-shard operations and multi-paxos for fault tolerance.
publications
Paper Title Number 1
Published in Journal 1, 2009
This paper is about the number 1. The number 2 is left for future work.
Recommended citation: Your Name, You. (2009). "Paper Title Number 1." Journal 1. 1(1).
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Paper Title Number 2
Published in Journal 1, 2010
This paper is about the number 2. The number 3 is left for future work.
Recommended citation: Your Name, You. (2010). "Paper Title Number 2." Journal 1. 1(2).
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Paper Title Number 3
Published in Journal 1, 2015
This paper is about the number 3. The number 4 is left for future work.
Recommended citation: Your Name, You. (2015). "Paper Title Number 3." Journal 1. 1(3).
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Paper Title Number 4
Published in GitHub Journal of Bugs, 2024
This paper is about fixing template issue #693.
Recommended citation: Your Name, You. (2024). "Paper Title Number 3." GitHub Journal of Bugs. 1(3).
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Paper Title Number 5, with math \(E=mc^2\)
Published in GitHub Journal of Bugs, 2024
This paper is about a famous math equation, \(E=mc^2\)
Recommended citation: Your Name, You. (2024). "Paper Title Number 3." GitHub Journal of Bugs. 1(3).
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talks
Talk 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
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Conference Proceeding talk 3 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
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teaching
Teaching experience 1
Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014
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Teaching experience 2
Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015
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