now_page.md

Now

A snapshot of my current priorities, active projects, reading, and explorations.

Updated Sep 21, 2026•Pune, India

This is a /now page. If my activities change, this page will be updated accordingly.

Building

›A lightweight CUDA kernel for streaming attention computation with block-sparse masking.
›An open-source benchmark suite for measuring long-context retrieval degradation in agentic loops.
›Vectorized parquet decompression engine in pure Rust with SIMD acceleration.

Learning & Researching

›eBPF for non-invasive observability of distributed gRPC microservices and GPU memory transfers.
›Mechanistic interpretability of attention heads during multi-step mathematical reasoning.
›Formal verification of consensus algorithms in distributed stream processors.

Reading

›Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann (re-reading chapter on distributed transactions).
›Transformer Architecture from First Principles (research survey on linear attention & state space models).
›Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud by Brendan Gregg.

Hardware / Setup

›Custom Linux workstation (Arch Linux, Ryzen 9, 64GB DDR5, RTX 4090 for local model evaluation and kernel development).
›Neovim + tmux + Ghostty workflow with custom LSP configurations for Rust and Python.