Hey!

Welcome to my website.

I’m Srinath, and I build software and live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Over the course of the last 15+ years, I’ve built software for 2G and 3G networks, built networking and storage drivers in the Linux Kernel, built authentication and identity systems for SaaS, built L4/L7 routing systems for PaaS and worked on a bunch of distributed systems/infrastructure problems in the Cloud. My interests are in building systems that scale and support products that ultimately delight users and add value to the world.

I also consult with non-profits, research labs and early-stage startups on their cloud infrastructure and technology challenges.

On a handful of occasions, I’ve also been an angel investor in a few firms although I should say I’m still an amateur and still learning the ropes. I do hope to get better at this in the coming years.

I did my Masters in Computer Science with a thesis focused on how to effectively perform in-situ data-analysis in highly-parallel supercomputing environments. Prior to that, I did my Bachelors in Electrical Engineering and researched about identifying carnatic raagas before the advent of neural networks.

Prior to coming to the United States to study at NC State, I was in Bangalore, although I grew up in the suburbs of Chennai. In addition to working on technology, I also dabble with music, mostly Indian classical and I’m a trained Indian classical vocalist. I also play a little bit of the Piano and the Saraswathi Veena. I love good humor and I’ve played a small part in acting in a couple of humor dramas with a bunch of friends in the bay area.

I’m a huge fan of Cricket. I call myself a cricket tragic and while I didn’t play the game at a reasonably competitive level, I’ve been following the game since I was a small kid an I can reasonably parse, talk about the game and hold my fort when talking to an expert. I owe a huge portion of my childhood to Cricket for helping me address boredom, get better with numbers (I can’t remember the number of days I’ve lost in poring into stats) and I do hope to write and contribute as a voice to the game some time in the future.

So if you’re interested in anything in the above blob of mess, you can find me on X where I ramble about tech and cricket, on LinkedIn where I mostly hear other people rambling about their careers and on Instagram where I post my music. I’m also on bsky and the fediverse, albeit irregularly. Come say hi! 😀

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PS: On AI - I use LLMs extensively to write code and research on various topics. However, when it comes to writings on this blog, I hold myself accountable to writing with minimal AI assistance. I might use an LLM to weigh in on how to word a sentence or offer strategies to make something concise, but the onus will be always on me.

PPS: Needless to say, anything I write here is my own thoughts and doesn’t reflect the views of my current or past employers.