About

Hi there 👋

🏡 I am from Jaipur, passionate about programming

🔭 I work at Hypersequent as a Software Engineer, our mission is to make software systems more reliable.

🏢 I have previously worked on my own project https://ecohunt.org full time. Before that I was a Senior Software Engineer at Yodlee.

🎓 I graduated from Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad as a Computer Science and engineering major.

👨‍💻 Main expertise is in algorithms, scraping and distributed backend systems, although I have learnt quite a bit of frontend as well recently while building ecohunt.

⚙️ Fluent with Java, Go, Javascript, C++, Python.

🌱 Currently learning Rust 🦀.

💬 Discuss with me Software development, AI.

🙋 Ask me about Headphones, music, non-fiction book recommendations, chess.

👯 Open to collaborations.

📫 The best way to track my work is to follow me on Twitter. The best way to get in touch is to DM me on Twitter (@realsatvik007). You can find me on:

😄 Pronouns: he/him

⚡ Question: I am learning a music instrument. Can you guess what it is?

Yours truly in Amber PalaceYours truly in Amber Palace

This was just standard info that I am using everywhere as a short introduction. But since this is my personal site, and you bothered to scroll this far, let me tell you more about myself.

The meaning of my name “Satvik” is “pure” or “virtuous” in Sanskrit.

I am neither particularly industrious nor lazy. I spend most of my time indoors, but I do like to go out for walks and hikes. My hobbies right now include reading, listening to music, playing chess, and learning to play the keyboard. I spend quite a bit of time scouring the internet for interesting articles from twitter, reddit, hackernews.

I have a preference for reading non-fiction. I have enjoyed reading “The Selfish Gene” by Richard Dawkins, “Fooled by Randomness”, “Skin in the Game” by Nassim Taleb, “Sapiens” by Yuval Noah Harari, Mastery by Robert Green, “Thinking Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman. I am currently reading “12 Rules for Life” by Jordan Peterson and “The Book of Why” by Judea Pearl. What are some of your favourite non-fiction books?

In Fiction, I have enjoyed reading “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling, “The Kite Runner”, “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini. I am currently reading “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens and “Sherlock Holmes” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

I listen to Viking music, and Rock(Rammstein, Metallica, GreenDay, Guns n Roses)

I listen to a lot of classical music as well. Spotify classical playlist Mozart and Bach are personal favourites. I am a beginner at playing the piano. 2 videos I recorded in the beginning of 2023 -

I used to play a lot of chess (but I don’t play as much anymore). I am rated above 2000 in blitz on lichess.

Favourite movies are Amelié, The Shawshank Redemption, The Godfather, Interstellar, Harry Potter and Lord of the Ring movies.

Favourite series are Silicon Valley, The Vikings, Mr. Robot, Sherlock Holmes.

I follow football (soccer), Formula1.

Among internet articles I like the LESSWRONG community as well as GWERN.

During my college years I use to spend a lot of my time solving Algorithm problems on Codeforces, Codechef, Uva, etc. I also used to play around with ML models.

I am good at backend systems, web scraping and distributed systems. To build my own projects, I learnt frontend programming.

I am currently working on a project called Ecohunt which is an ecommerce search, comparison and price tracking platform. I am also plotting a few other projects, but nothing polished enough to talk about yet.

I love talking to people from different backgrounds and cultures. Do drop me a message if you want to talk about anything.

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