Gaurav Padam
I build things from the ground up — HTTP servers, load balancers, coding platforms. Kubernetes contributor. Working at HERE Maps. Interested in systems, infrastructure, and the layer below the framework.
Self-hosted, offline coding practice platform. Sandboxed Docker execution, JWT auth, 13 problems across difficulty levels. Deploy it yourself — no LeetCode account required.
HTTP/1.1 server written from scratch in Rust. The kind of project you write when you want to understand what Express is actually doing.
Infrastructure load balancer built in Rust. Real-world application of systems design patterns — not a tutorial project.
Personal voice and video assistant that automates household tasks. Built because the alternatives were either overkill or required too many cloud dependencies.
I'm a software engineer at HERE Maps, working on infrastructure and platform systems. On the side, I contribute to Kubernetes and maintain LocalCode.
My instinct when I don't understand something is to build it from scratch. That's how the HTTP server and load balancer happened — not to ship products, but to stop treating things as black boxes.
I work primarily in Rust, Python, and Java depending on what the problem calls for. I care about systems that are well-understood by the people who run them.
stack
- Rust
- Python
- Java / Spring Boot
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- React / TypeScript
- PostgreSQL