Hey, I'm Raunak.
I'm a software engineer based out of San Francisco, CA.
I graduated from UBC, Vancouver in May 2023. I received a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics.
Upon graduation, I joined Tesla as a software engineer on their simulations team. I was the one who brought up the Cybertruck's Steer-by-Wire system into our simulation environment prior to its release in Nov. 2023.
I then got affected by mass lay-offs in Apr. 2024 and went about exploring California for a bit.
Now I'm working at Eventual Computing, a small startup focusing on creating a distributed compute platform and tooling for the upcoming data age.
Stuff I can do:
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distributed systems: I'm currently working on daft at Eventual. I implemented functionality to efficiently compute the approximate number of distinct elements in a distributed database using the hyperloglog algorithm. You can check out all of my commits here.
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build systems: While at Tesla, I worked on bringing up new vehicle components using buck2. I wrote build targets and rules to implement a multi-stage build pipeline (including intermediary steps such as codegens).
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frontend: This blog is built using nextjs and shadcn. It works and looks nice.
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languages: I have 2 years of professional experience with rust and python (Tesla + Eventual). I have some experience writing firmware in C at Tesla. I also work with gleam and golang in my freetime. I favour languages with an algebraic type system.