Blog

Writing about Linux kernel internals, performance engineering, eBPF, and systems debugging.

• Mar 2026
  How I Fixed a Real Linux Kernel Bug as a First-Time Contributor
  Fixing a KASAN use-after-free in atm/lec using RCU, with review from Eric Dumazet. What I learned about kernel development and the community.
  kernel · rcu · networking · syzbot · open-source
• 2025
  Fixing a recursive deadlock in OpenTelemetry's Python SDK ↗
  Diagnosed and fixed a recursive deadlock in the OpenTelemetry Python SDK — merged upstream.
  opentelemetry · python · deadlock · upstream
• 2025
  Scaled servers while curtailing cloud costs using eBPF ↗
  Built an eBPF-powered thread profiler to trace syscalls at kernel level for Python & Java apps.
  ebpf · performance · python · java · kernel
• 2025
  Hunting Python memory leaks at the C level ↗
  How I built TrackLeak — a tool that hooks malloc and PyMem_* to find memory leaks in production Python apps.
  python · memory · c · trackleak