ankit@hq:~$available
whoami~/intro

$ ./introduce --self

Hi, I'm Ankit.

I build systems.

systems thinkerbackend engineerlifelong learnergeneralistpattern hunter

I build systems, study how they behave, and connect ideas across disciplines.

[ currentlybuilding·shipping·learning]
system_info
role
Engineer / Generalist
focus
Systems × People
domains
Eng·AI·Econ·Fin·Law·Psych
location
Remote
status
available
uptime
curious, always
recent_activitygit log
  • a7f3c9e

    essay: hard problems live between disciplines

    2h ago
  • 3b1d7aa

    feat: india-findata RBI + NSE ingestion

    1d ago
  • d9e2f44

    notes: incentives as an API for behavior

    2d ago
  • 7c8a1e2

    build: rate limiter from scratch (write-up)

    4d ago
  • 0fe9b21

    study: consent & data-privacy as constraints

    6d ago
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  1. 2024

    System Design Portfolio

    Started building 50 distributed systems from scratch — rate limiters, caches, message queues, and more. Learning in public.

  2. 2023

    datastream-lab

    Started experimenting with Kafka and ClickHouse for real-time streaming across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

tech_stack
GoPythonTypeScriptKafkaClickHousePostgresFastAPIDockerReactRedisAWSSQL
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  • shipped37 wk
  • reading12 bk
  • writing08 mo
  • learning
sys_quote

The interesting problems live between the disciplines, not inside any one of them.

working principle