Software Engineer with 3+ years of experience building and operating backend and AI systems. I've worked on real-time financial systems, APIs, async pipelines, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS.
More recently, I've been contributing to open-source systems projects and exploring Rust, databases, PostgreSQL internals, and Linux I/O. Looking for my next stint to continue doing backend and AI engineering after a short break :)
Software engineer with 3+ years of experience across startups, increasingly working on databases, systems, and infrastructure.
I previously cofounded Mars Computers, where I built a low-latency remote desktop system with a custom video streaming pipeline in Rust and worked across networking, OS primitives, and bare-metal infrastructure. I've also built production backend systems involving real-time financial data, PostgreSQL, Redis, WebSockets, and async processing.
More recently, I've been working on database internals and systems: contributing to SlateDB (a Rust LSM-tree storage engine), experimenting with PostgreSQL/Linux I/O and tail latency, and building database tooling.
Looking for hard engineering problems around databases, infrastructure, networking, distributed systems, or systems-heavy backend work. I like going down rabbit holes, understanding why things behave the way they do, and owning things end-to-end.
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Go, Node.js, Rust, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Linux, Docker; Claude Code, Codex, Cursor
Resume: https://vivekn.dev/resume.pdf
Email: work@vivekn.dev
Software Engineer with 3+ years of experience building and operating backend and AI systems. I've worked on real-time financial systems, APIs, async pipelines, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS.
More recently, I've been contributing to open-source systems projects and exploring Rust, databases, PostgreSQL internals, and Linux I/O. Looking for my next stint to continue doing backend and AI engineering after a short break :)