My blogs, reflections, and writings

  • Designing Human Feedback Interface for Trust & Safety Research Engineers

    Hey everyone! I’m here to share an open-source project I built on GitHub for teams that train AI models with human feedback. The GitHub Pull Request is accessible here. I started building this tool back in July 2024 as I was applying for Anthropic’s “Human Feedback Interface” role. It was a really insightful learning experience…


    • How To Build A Highly Responsive Location Service For Restaurant Delivery

      How To Build A Highly Responsive Location Service For Restaurant Delivery

      Key insight: Designing a driver geo-location tracking service in one month requires critical architectural design trade-offs that balances speed of delivery and performance. Adding an audit trail service to record driver’s locations increases security and offers operations efficiencies, but introduces server load that needs to be effectively managed. Challenge At the height of the pandemic…


      • Debug consistently: Easy way to instantly detect and correct rare inconsistencies in distributed systems

        Debug consistently: Easy way to instantly detect and correct rare inconsistencies in distributed systems

        Key insight: Designing an integrity tool for transaction failures across a distributed system reduces the time complexity of resolving issues because the tool is designed for consistency. When the base CLI is built, the challenge becomes assessing the cost of designing an integrity tool as a check or as a fix. Challenge As discussed in…


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