Backend & Infra Engineer · Open Source

Alok

I build backend systems & infrastructure in Go and ship AI pipelines in Python. Currently working at Osto. Completed GSoC '25 at Pharo and LFX '25 at CNCF. Outside of code: Osho, Financial Markets, Movies & conversations that make time disappear.
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Throttle GitHub →

Rate limiting as a service. Token Bucket, Sliding Window and Fixed Window, each backed by atomic Redis Lua scripts. Any language, one HTTP call, no duplicated policy logic.

GoRedisLuaPostgreSQLKubernetes

Haqq GitHub →

A free legal rights advisor for India. Hybrid retrieval over pgvector and tsvector, local embeddings, and answers that stream back with statutory citations.

PythonFastAPIpgvectorReactLLMs

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Philosophy 19 Sept 2026 49 min read

Go Find Me a House Where Nobody Has Died

A woman carries her dead son door to door begging for medicine. She is told to fetch a mustard seed from a house where nobody has ever died. The most elegant piece of grief counselling ever recorded & it involves no consolation whatsoever.

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb