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Ok, let me be honest: I seriously opened LeetCode to practice DSA, but ended up building this instead.
Aneesh Sambu: Software Engineer & Undergraduate Researcher
The BoringZineabout things that did not need building
- leetpremium
- WhyPY
- goLLab Editor
- Custom GFS Implementation
- ICSA 2026 Main Track Research Paper
- ...and more
psst. open it
pick an edition
Table of contents
- editor-in-chief
- Aneesh Sambu
- lab
- SA4S@SERC
- unit
- IIIT Hyderabad
- printed in
- Hyderabad, India
dotted = clickable. try it.
manifesto ← start here
this issue
workbench
- 0x08The catalogue
- 0x0Aleetpremium
- 0x0CWhyPY
- 0x0EgoLLab Editor
- 0x10Network File System
- 0x12Custom GFS Implementation
- 0x14wyShell
- 0x16multi-audio-sink
- 0x18agentic_decomposer
back of the book
- 0x1AField log (cv)
- 0x1EWriting
- 0x20Write to me
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Hyderabad, India
Software Engineer & Undergraduate Researcher
B.Tech + MS by Research student in Computer Science at IIIT Hyderabad. I work as an undergraduate researcher at SERC, and in my free time I build small systems projects to understand how things like shells, file systems, and interpreters actually work.
ps aux
- RUN Undergraduate Researcher, SERC, IIIT Hyderabad · March 2024 - Present
- EXIT 0 Technology Program Intern, Wells Fargo · May 2026 - July 2026
- EXIT 0 Summer Intern, Smart City Living Lab, IIIT Hyderabad · May 2024 - July 2024
- EXIT 0 Intern, VILS AI, IIIT Hyderabad · January 2024 - April 2024
— Aneesh Sambu
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workbench · featured
This issue
WhyPY
A custom programming language built to understand the world of interpreters: implemented lexical analysis, parsing, and evaluation components from scratch to support the language's functionality.
goLLab Editor
A collaborative document editor utilizing a client-server architecture with gRPC for communication: multiple users can edit documents simultaneously with real-time synchronization.
Custom GFS Implementation
A custom implementation of the Google File System (GFS) built to understand distributed file system architectures, focusing on scalability, fault tolerance, and high aggregate performance across multiple storage servers.
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Research &
awards
- 01
ICSA 2026 Main Track Research Paper the big one
Accepted to present a main track research paper at the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2026), an A-tier venue.
- 02
SAGAI Workshop Publication
Published a research paper at the SAGAI workshop co-located with the ICSA conference as one of the main authors.
- 03
2nd Place at HackIIIT
Secured 2nd position in the annually held HackIIIT hackathon (regular track) at IIIT Hyderabad.
- 04
Web-Admin, Clubs Council IIITH
Worked as Web-Admin for the Clubs Council at IIIT Hyderabad.
- 05
Author of The Boring Blog
Author of "The Boring Blog," a personal blog.
form 0x9E · no. 3544 · via monkeytype.com
typing citation
- offender
- sambuaneesh
- clocked at
- 158 wpm, 100% (15s)
- also
- 136 (60s), 168 (10 words)
- priors
- 3,544 tests, 69 h
- standing
- top 3.1%
toolchain
- PythonAS-02 · AS-05 · AS-08
- CAS-04 · AS-06
- GolangAS-03
also: C++ · Java · JavaScript · TypeScript · SQL
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Subsystems
Systems Programming
Built small projects like a shell and a network file system in C to learn how they work.
SE Research
Undergraduate researcher at SERC, IIITH. Presenting at IEEE ICSA 2026 on software architecture and LLMs.
Web Development
Comfortable across the stack with React, Node.js, Svelte, and FastAPI.
Distributed Systems
Coursework and projects covering distributed file systems and gRPC-based tools.
off hours · stealthspectre
research, obviously →
Hotline Miami15.6 h
Stronghold Crusader HD3.5 h
Disco Elysium26 h
Hades II1.6 h
Geometry Dash8.3 h
1. Stardew Valley89 h
2. Red Dead Redemption 241.3 h
3. Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition38.3 h
4. Yakuza 033.8 h
5. HITMAN World of Assassination28.6 h
- recYakuza 0
lifechanging
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classifieds
WANTED yes, you
Collaborators, research ideas, internships, or just an interesting problem. Also teammates for whatever game you're on; send an invite and I'll hop in.
write to meI/O · ports
resume.pdf · one page · no postage
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