"What I cannot create, I do not understand." — Richard Feynman
I believe technology is the single greatest creation of the human mind, completely redefining the limits of what we can achieve.
I am a systems and infrastructure engineer, an open-source contributor, and a builder by nature. My curiosity doesn't stay in one lane. I have an obsessive drive to explore new things, which has led me to dive deep into a vast array of languages, architectures, and tech stacks. If a problem is complex, unfamiliar, or under-explained, I solve it.
Every project I build is another step toward a simple goal: demystify complex systems and turn raw curiosity into tools that create meaningful impact.
- Upstream contributor to several open-source projects, including simdjson and Dr. Memory.
- Author of PTTDB, a deterministic time-travel debugger.
- Author of Flume, an LSM-Tree storage engine in Go.
- Author of Peb, a high-performance C++ edge proxy / web server.
- Author of P Compiler, a dependency-free x86-64 compiler built from scratch.
- Reach me via ridhaaraar@gmail.com or LinkedIn.

