From the desk of Prakhar Pandey

I build systems, write down what I notice, and keep a little room for music.

Systems engineer working close to storage, Linux, and performance.

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Placement Logistics Prep?

A blog post to help coordinators prep for the logistics side of the endgame

Life 4 min read

What is a Placement Coordinator?

A blog post about the role of a Placement Coordinator in IITs and the responsibilities that come with it. Intended for specific audience only.

Life 5 min read

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Intent Launcher (external link)

A pitch-black Android home screen with money, focus and family built in. Built for my own needs and made public in case someone else faces similar problems. Nothing you track leaves the phone.

  • Kotlin
  • Jetpack Compose
  • Android

· Bengaluru

Rebuilding this corner of the internet

I am turning this site into somewhere I will actually write: systems notes, travel stories, life updates, and the things I am learning along the way.

About the author

I work on Nutanix's Stargate userspace storage engine, primarily in C++17 across NVMe and SPDK, reliability, memory allocation, performance analysis, and Linux internals. I enjoy turning profiler traces and production evidence into simpler, faster systems.

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