Avinash Sajjanshetty
Software Engineer at Turso
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAvinash Sajjanshetty is a backend-focused software engineer with 12 years of experience, primarily coding in Go and Python and currently exploring Rust and WebAssembly. Based in Bengaluru, he has built and hardened distributed systems, messaging infrastructure, and database components at companies like Turso and Verloop.io. He contributes actively to open source—work ranges from deploying PyTorch models via Flask to improving libSQL and enhancing community platforms like Lobsters—demonstrating both systems and application-level chops. His projects span disk-based KV stores, database replica tracking, and CLI tooling, reflecting a pragmatic blend of performance, correctness, and developer ergonomics. Colleagues would call him a problem-finder who deliberately seeks tricky bugs to learn from and fix, turning curiosity about failure modes into durable improvements. Always open to collaboration, he keeps a public record of contributions on GitHub for anyone wanting to see concrete impact.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
coursera
English, Kannada, Hindi
Github Skills (43)
git10
ruby-rails10
pytorch10
develop10
key-value-store10
sqlite10
python10
databases10
storage10
machine-learning10
rails10
data-serialization10
environment-variables10
flask-ask10
serialization10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
avinassh/rockstar
Jul 2015 - May 2021
Makes you a Rockstar C++ Programmer in 2 minutes
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:70 commits, 68 PRs, 63 pushes in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Avinash primarily contributed to the development of the `rockstar` project, a tool to generate "rockstar" programmer profiles by generating a large number of commits. Initial contributions included setting up the basic structure, defining the core functionality within `RockStar/__init__.py`, and creating a `setup.py` file. Further commits added features like custom file names, the ability to incorporate different programming language examples and random commit messages. The user also updated the examples and overall project structure, including a migration to a command line interface.
cpp
avinassh/py-caskdb
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
(educational) build your own disk based KV store
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 30 commits, 26 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Avinash focused on developing the core functionality of a disk-based key-value store. They implemented features for storing and retrieving data from disk, including data serialization, index management, and file handling. The user also added tests, improved the documentation and added the dictionary API. The user also addressed deletion.
disk-based
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