Hi, I’m Ankur.
I am a Senior Systems Engineer specializing in High-Performance Infrastructure, Rust, and Linux Kernel internals.
After 12+ years of architecting distributed cloud systems (SDN, IoT, and Big Data), I grew tired of abstracting away performance problems. Now, I fix them at the source. I pivoted my focus down the stack to the metal—optimizing memory layouts, writing custom allocators, and bypassing the TCP/IP stack using eBPF/XDP.
My engineering philosophy is simple: “Data layout is performance.”
Current Focus:
- Research: Implementing classic CS papers (like Varghese & Lauck’s Timing Wheels) in Rust to beat standard library performance.
- Observability: Building zero-dependency agents that expose kernel reality (OOM kills, PSI, page faults) rather than just system metrics.
- Networking: Leveraging XDP to protect AI inference clusters from volumetric attacks at the driver level.
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