Balagopal Kanattil Shaji

I'm Bala - A physicist turned Software Engineer, with a passion for Databases and Distributed Systems.

More about me

I'm a self-taught developer with a formal education in Physics from IIT Bombay. Currently, I work as a Software Engineer at Amazon.

Outside of tech, I enjoy spending time bouldering or cooking. I am also a big fan of horror, particularly the works of Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft.

Projects
  • FlarePen :

    Web based editor for sketching ASCII diagrams.

  • YarDB :

    An experimental analytics database written in Rust.

  • lucene-utils :

    Utilities to work with lucene index files.

  • Pretty :

    Command line utility to view prettified files.