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about

the operator
since 2004

I'm Garvit — a systems engineer who builds tools that keep their promises under load: schedulers, metrics stores, lineage graphs. Rust and Go, shipped to 200+ teams. No demos that die on a localhost. Every unit here runs in production.

Currently a mid-level systems engineer at Cinderforge Labs, on the team that writes the tools other engineers quietly depend on. My spec is Rust · Go · gRPC · Redis — from embedded metrics stores to a 4.2M-jobs-a-day scheduler. Looking for the next hard problem in distributed systems or developer tooling.

status
open to work
focus
distributed systems · tooling
degree
b.tech cse — 2024
base
bengaluru, in
open to relocate
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projects

two units on the line
shipped, live, maintained
P/01 may 2022 → present

harpoon — the build cache that survives the weekend

  • Distributed compile cache — 68% median cache-hit rate across 200+ CI machines
  • Cut a monorepo's cold CI from 22 minutes to 6.5 minutes; saves ~3,100 build-hours/month
  • Rust + gRPC + S3; 2,400 GitHub Actions workflows reference it, 48 contributors
  • 3.2k stars — the flagship, maintained on a written release schedule
rust gRPC s3 ci/cd distributed
view on github ↗
Cache-hit analytics dashboard — Harpoon build cache
fig. 01 — cache registry rust · gRPC · s3
P/02 mar 2024 → present

cairn — an embedded metrics store for edge boxes

  • Time-series store that fits in 64 MB RAM — 1.2M points/sec ingestion on a 4-core ARM box
  • 14-month uptime record on a field deployment with zero manual intervention
  • Rust + RocksDB + gRPC; serves the telemetry layer of 200+ customer teams
  • Built at Cinderforge Labs — the tracing service 99.9% of teams onboarded
rust rocksdb gRPC arm64 telemetry
view on github ↗
Machine-room telemetry on a desk — Cairn metrics store
fig. 02 — the store rust · rocksdb · gRPC
03

skills

the toolbelt
no progress bars, ever

languages

[07]
typescriptjavascriptpython rustgosql bash

libraries

[08]
reactnext.jsnode.js gRPCrocksdbredis prometheuscontainerd

tools & platforms

[13]
linuxdockerkubernetes postgresqlclickhousenats terraformawsnix gitgrafanavault eBPF

soft skills

[05]
incident responseon-call disciplinerunbook writing mentoringscoping
04

education

punched cards
of record
aug 2020 — jul 2024 b.tech — computer science & engineeringkandhari institute of technology · jalandhar 8.9/10
sep 2022 — dec 2022 exchange semester — computer sciencewadsworth polytechnic · manchester, uk EXCH
jan 2023 — may 2024 teaching assistant — data structureskandhari institute of technology · jalandhar TA
nov 2024 — nov 2024 certification — kubernetes application developercncf · certified CKAD
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proof

ledger of
certificates
certificates
nov 2024 certified kubernetes application developer cncf
apr 2024 aws certified developer — associate aws
oct 2023 hashicorp certified — terraform associate hashicorp
mar 2023 associate cloud engineer google cloud
jun 2022 github foundations github
achievements
mar 2024 toolmaker of the month — dev-tools newsletter harpoon
apr 2025 paper — low-overhead tracing for single-binary observability journal of open tools & systems
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say hi

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Got a role, a system, or a weird machine that needs building? Drop a transmission — the form opens your mail client, zero servers involved. Or write directly: garvit9829@gmail.com

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