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Projects & Contributions
Execution pipelines, databases, distributed systems, and AI infrastructure. Each project includes a write-up on what made it interesting.
system-eye
AppArmor for macOS resource consumption. Define per-app CPU and memory policies, enforce them automatically. Rust daemon with eBPF telemetry, a CLI, and an MCP layer so AI agents can reason about and adjust system resource allocation.
scroll-reth
Custom L2 follower node assembled from reth's modular primitives — no fork, no patch, just composition. Syncs L1 in full, then tracks Scroll's batch commitments and state roots in a background tokio task via the ScrollChain contract.
Xplode
Real-time multiplayer PvP where every move is on-chain. Sub-50ms commit latency via MagicBlock's 1ms ephemeral rollups, Solana settlement, zero gas for players. Live at playxplode.xyz — featured by MagicBlock.
VerseFi
Prediction markets are fragmented by collateral. VerseFi's insight: same-outcome conditional tokens are correlated regardless of denomination — enabling cross-collateral AMM swaps and zero-liquidation lending that resolves with the market.
tiny-lsm
RocksDB, LevelDB, Cassandra — all built on LSM trees. Ground-up Rust implementation with memtables, WAL, SSTables, MVCC, and compaction. Built to understand the internals; extended beyond the course with time-window compaction for append-heavy workloads.
XAlloc
Slab allocator in Rust — 2.7× faster than the system allocator at 8 threads. Thread-local caches keep the hot path lock-free; the system allocator's latency grows super-linearly under contention. XAlloc's stays flat.
block-tracer
A contract at address X might not be the contract you audited. After SELFDESTRUCT + CREATE, the bytecode changes but the address doesn't. block-tracer scans for this reinit pattern — 32-way parallel traces, reth's MDBX queried directly for current state.
bittorrent-rust
Full BitTorrent client from the BEP-3 spec — bencoding, tracker protocol, peer handshake, concurrent piece downloading across multiple peers, SHA-1 integrity. A 20-year-old protocol that still gets efficient decentralized distribution right.
JpeX
Winner, EthGlobal HackMoney 2022. Options markets for NFTs — epoch-based vaults that let holders hedge floor risk, write covered calls, or speculate on collection movements. 72 hours, two repos, fully on-chain.