Backend Engineer · Open Source
Alok
I build distributed systems in Go and ship AI pipelines in Python. Completed GSoC '25 at Pharo and LFX '25 at CNCF. Outside of code: Dostoevsky, Osho, stock markets, and conversations that make time disappear. Always up for one.
Projects All projects →
Throttle
GitHub →
Rate-limiting as a service. Token Bucket, Sliding Window, Fixed Window — each backed by atomic Redis Lua scripts. Any language, one HTTP call, no duplicated logic.
Haqq
GitHub →
AI legal assistant on a pgVector corpus. Background workers handle retrieval and LLM inference asynchronously. Per-IP rate limiting and Docker Compose orchestration.
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The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.