I am Nrishinghananda Roy, a Rust Engineer building high-performance backends, storage engines, and developer tools.
I turn complex systems problems into clean, composable Rust code that scales without surprises. Currently seeking remote Rust roles at startups where performance and reliability are not optional.
I bridge the gap between high-level application code and low-level systems internals. Here is the impact of a first-principles engineering approach.
Architected the migration of monolithic Java legacy services into highly concurrent, distributed Rust microservices. This infrastructure shift slashed global response times, stabilizing p95 latencies consistently under <200ms at scale.
Engineered a persistent LSM-Tree Key-Value storage engine from scratch in Rust. Built deep system internals including an Arena-backed lock-free SkipList MemTable, Write-Ahead Logs (WAL) for crash durability, and size-tiered multi-level compaction.
Engineered zero-allocation data parsing binaries in Rust to entirely replace slow, complex legacy Python pipelines. Achieved extreme parallelization and memory safety, boosting enterprise document processing efficiency by 60%.
Building production-grade APIs and services in Rust using Axum and the Tokio async runtime. Memory-safe, zero-cost abstractions that eliminate entire classes of bugs before they ever reach production.
Designing storage engines, custom data structures, and low-level I/O pipelines from scratch. Every allocation is intentional, every byte layout is deliberate, every hot path is profiled.
Building CLI tools, custom parsers, code generators, and internal dev infrastructure that replaces fragile scripts with rock-solid compiled binaries. Making engineers faster is a force multiplier.
Comfortable owning entire features end-to-end in fast-moving environments. Ship first, iterate fast, maintain quality. I thrive in small teams where autonomy and bias for action matter most.
Breaking ambiguous, complex problems into clean, composable solutions. Whether it's a novel algorithm, a tricky concurrency bug, or an architectural decision, I reason from first principles.
Profiling, benchmarking, and squeezing maximum throughput from every system. From lock-free data structures to cache-aware memory layouts, I obsess over the critical path.
Freelance | Remote
Codefy GmbH | Remote, Germany
Dhiway | Remote, India
Trustforum | Remote, France
Engineered a persistent Key-Value storage engine from scratch in Rust. Replaced traditional database wrappers with a custom engine built strictly on zero-cost abstractions, multi-level compactions, and an arena-allocated SkipList.
Shipped to App Store in weeks with zero prior mobile experience. Handles festival info, real-time volunteer management, and role-based auth. 100+ downloads.