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Technical Writing
Notes on distributed systems, performance engineering, and database internals. I write when I have something worth saying.
From negative edge to $30.18: building a market maker for Paradigm's Prediction Market Challenge
How I went from a negative-edge baseline to $30.18 mean edge on Paradigm's Prediction Market Challenge — regime segmentation, a closed-form volatility gate, and reclassifying a consumed order book as an opportunity.
LSM compaction strategies — why RocksDB's defaults are wrong for your workload
Leveled, tiered, and time-window compaction have different tradeoffs. Understanding them from first principles changes how you configure every database that uses an LSM tree.
What I learned from performance work in reth
Notes from submitting perf PRs to Paradigm's Ethereum execution client — sparse trie optimization, engine tree improvements, and navigating a 500k LOC Rust codebase.
Making on-chain games feel like Web2
The latency budget for a real-time multiplayer game is 50ms. Here's how MagicBlock's ephemeral rollups let Xplode hit that target while keeping every move on Solana.