systems · math · software

27, software engineer. Writing about distributed systems, databases, and everything else that keeps me up at night.

recent work
Senior Software Engineer — Clientell
AI agent execution path · Salesforce indexing · observability
oct 2025 – present

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17 jul 2026 · 19 min read
Yes, you can store JSONs in Postgres. No, you shouldn't. Well, it depends
A deep dive into PostgreSQL's JSON capabilities, the tradeoffs, and when you should reach for them.
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13 jun 2026 · 3 min read
From the Birthday Paradox to Consistent Hashing
The start of my journey into Google's paper: "Consistent Hashing with Bounded Loads".
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redis-go
Redis-compatible server in Go — RESP2 protocol, TTL expiry, SQLite-backed durability.
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mit-6.5840
MIT's distributed systems course (formerly 6.824) — Raft, MapReduce, and distributed kv stores.
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