Sandipsinh Rathod

BACKEND ENGINEER | RUST, DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

Code Poet On Low Battery

I'm Sandipsinh Rathod. I build high-performance backend systems, mostly in Rust. I like working close to the metal -- gRPC gateways, caching layers, query optimizers, and anything where latency matters.

I've been tinkering with computers since I was a kid. Started reverse-engineering Android apps at 12, figured out how Admob IDs worked, and eventually got my account banned -- which motivated me to build my own apps instead. By 16, I had published two apps on the Play Store, one of which hit 13K+ downloads with 10K+ active users in three months.

Along the way I explored app development in Java, built an open-source NoSQL database, published a dependency on Maven, and spent a lot of time hopping between Linux distros and setting up KVM on everything I could get my hands on (including running macOS on Manjaro).

On the programming side, I love mathematically inclined topics in CS. I switched to Rust for performance and implemented several cryptographic algorithms -- RSA, DH, AES(CBC), XChaCha20 -- and learned how TLS works under the hood.

If you wish to contact me, I can be reached via email or LinkedIn.