Backend and infrastructure engineer with 19 years building data systems, distributed platforms, and developer tools. Three-time founding engineer. I like systems that are cheap to run and simple to operate.
Currently at Relyance AI, working on its data privacy, security, and AI governance platform. Simpllyf is my personal label for spare-time projects — small tools and products, some of them open source.
Skills
Languages: Rust, Go, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, Java, SQL
Infrastructure: GCP, AWS, Cloudflare (Workers, R2), Fly.io, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, OpenTelemetry
Data & AI: PostgreSQL, Kafka, Pub/Sub, Bigtable, BigQuery, Elasticsearch, Redis, Delta Lake, LLM APIs
Education: B.E. Computer Science, Coimbatore Institute of Technology (Anna University)
Projects
hron — A human-readable scheduling language. Write expressions like
every weekday at 9:00 except dec 25 instead of cron syntax. DST-aware native libraries in 8 languages, from Rust to Ruby.
The rest ship under Simpllyf — a terminal Postgres client, a status page platform, a release proxy, and a few smaller tools.
Based in British Columbia, Canada. Remote by preference, open to on-site for the right role. When not coding, I enjoy driving and cooking South Indian food.