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// what i'm building
- **JanSamadhan v2:** Architecting a ward-level analytics dashboard for civic grievance monitoring in Delhi. Refining high-throughput connection pools and Postgres spatial query indexes. - **Developer Tooling:** Setting up automated testing configs and lint pipelines for Next.js 15 apps.
// what i'm reading
- **Designing Data-Intensive Applications** by Martin Kleppmann (diving deep into partitioning and distributed system replication models).
// what i'm thinking about
- How municipal corporations can operate using robust, open government APIs. - The boundary between public trust ledgers and local citizen database security.
// where i am
- Based in **Jaipur, India**. Seeking challenging **Backend Engineer internships** for Summer 2026. Open to remote roles and willing to relocate.
// not doing right now
- Taking on additional freelance contracts. - Frontend-only work (focusing strictly on systems engineering, database indexing, and backend architectures).