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This is a now page, and if you have your own site, you should make one, too.
Updated November 20, 2025
Where I Am
- Boston University: Pursuing my Integrated Masters & PhD in Comparative Studies in English and American Literature.
- Airbnb: Working as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), ensuring the platform stays up while I deconstruct narratives.
- Location: Living in Boston, balancing the academic rigour with the fast-paced tech world.
Research & Code
Bridging the gap between 19th-century trauma studies and 21st-century cloud infrastructure.
- Digital Humanities: Building the Trauma-Linguistics-Engine to quantify silence and stammering in South Asian literature using NLP.
- DevOps: Architecting self-healing, cloud-native archives using Kubernetes and Terraform (HCL) to preserve cultural heritage data.
- System Design: Scaling NanoLink, my distributed URL shortener, to handle high-throughput traffic with Redis and Go.
On My Desk
- Reading: “The Body in Pain” by Elaine Scarry (for the PhD).
- Reading: “Site Reliability Engineering” (the Google book, for the job).
- Writing: A paper on the “Syntax of Silence” in postcolonial cinema.