Pratham Patel — Systems Programmer

ABOUT_ME.TXT

DESCRIPTION:

I'm a student who enjoys building clean, functional digital tools and interfaces that work well and look good.

I'm a computer science student who enjoys turning caffeine into working code. I focus on building clean, functional systems with an eye for simplicity and performance. My main interests lie in AI systems, data, and figuring out how things break so I can fix them better.

PHILOSOPHY:

"The best code is code that does not need to exist. The second best is code that's so simple it obviously has no bugs."

SKILLS.JSON

{
  "languages": [
    "C", "Go", "Python"
  ],
  "current_focus": [
    "Language Design",
    "System Architecture",
    "CLI Design"
  ],
  "tools": [
    "Neovim", "tmux"
  ],
}

PROJECTS.DIR

MUON — EBPF-BASED PROCESS TRACER

Muon is a high-performance, localised observability tool designed to bring instruction-level kernel tracing to the everyday developer's terminal.

STACK: C, Go, eBPF

Current Build:

Built a Linux kernel-space process tracer in Go using eBPF, capturing syscall events across entire process trees with kernel-space PID filtering via eBPF hashtags.
Zero-copy overhead on file and memory syscall workloads (416 on baseline), with exec-heavy workloads at 12.7% overhead — compared to perf trace's 67.5% and strace's 140%.
Validated across 7 filtered apps with CPU frequency locked and scale-isolated — zero event losses.
Designed asynchronous single-binary installation. No agents, no kernel modules, no configuration; attaches to any running process via PID in under one second.

↗ CODE

STANZA — PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

A custom interpreted programming language built from scratch in Python to understand language design fundamentals.

STACK: Python

Current Build:

Control Flow & Loops: Supports if/else/elif, while, and for loops.
Functions: Added first-class support for named and anonymous functions.
Types & Logic: Added stronger comparators and custom booleans (redefining to 'fact' and 'cap').

↗ CODE

HORCRUX — CRYPTOGRAPHIC FILE VAULT

A CLI tool that secures sensitive files using AES-256-GCM envelope encryption. It deterministically generates the master encryption key and data encryption policies using Shamir's Secret Sharing (SSS) to ensure zero knowledge offline storage.

STACK: Go

Current Build:

Encrypted Google Tink for memory-safe data wrapping of massive files.
Built a custom Shamir's Secret Sharing math engine from scratch to handle key sharding.
Designed a custom binary metadata header (HRX2) for secure key reconstruction and seamless file encryption.

↗ CODE

EDUCATION:

B.Tech Computer Science Engg.

NIE Mysuru · 2025 - Present

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CONTACT.SH

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