Hi, I'm Ritu Raj

I code for the fun of it. Sometimes I write fairly interesting technical deep-dives at Bellwether's Blog.

Recent Engineering Blogs

1. Approaching 50 Million Transactions
2. Implementing Lock-Free Ring Buffers in C++
3. CloudFlare Outage: Technical Breakdown
4. AWS Outage: Technical Breakdown

Next Up : SIMD Accelerated B+Trees and how they outpace standard containers

Designing a low latency concurrent logger with Fan-In layout.

Technical Background

• Languages: C++ 17, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, C#
• Domains: Systems Programming, Backend, DevOps, Full Stack Web-Dev
• Competitive Programming:
  • CodeForces: Specialist (1520)
  • CodeChef: 4⭐
  • AtCoder: 5 Kyu
  • LeetCode: Knight

Projects

1. Capitol

A low-latency, multi-core architecture stock exchange capable of handling 2.3 Million Orders/s. It features a dedicated market simulator and an Alpha testing server to test custom strategies.

2. GoD-B

A B+ Tree-based key-value store in Go with persistence, WAL-based recovery, and a double-buffer flushing mechanism. Includes an in-memory mode supporting >1M+ reads/s.

3. VCON

A high-performance Version Control System in Go with a constant-time retrieval algorithm. It achieves version fetch latencies of just 16–20 microseconds against any type of version tree structure.

4. Commu-net

A microservice-based mail automation utility that broadcasts personalized emails to thousands of recipients on behalf of a user via secure Gmail integration.

Hackathon Wins : 3.

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