Nithilan Rameshkumar

I build software for systems and infra. I'm also a SysAdmin.

Electronic Systems at IIT Madras. Computer Science at Amrita. The Hardware and Software may now tie the three-fold cord — Ecclesiastes 4:12

I've built

Before these projects, I also spent a few months interning for Honeywell. I built tools for natural language processing. I also used to do pwn challenges on the bi0s blr CTF team.

zapiska — the best indieweb commenting engine ever, also does webmentions
goboxd — code sandbox thats in prod. Gives leetcode a run for its money. 50+ languages yet ultrafast
Polyphonic synth firmware — an audio engine for an ESP32 which was never meant to drive audio. we do what we must('nt) because we can
homelab — 26 services, many crontabs, auto healing with AI agents as 24/7 on-site engineers, distributed backups with fault testing. secured like the triad.

Communities I help out in

These are two communities that hold a special place in my heart as they help share things I personally believe in

atlas — a systems programming community for all. I help run it. We hold workshops. We keep a discussion thread active each day. The community made these two items.
- terminal velocity — a workshop that teaches students to use the command line
- links archive — an archival of the links we share in the community
amrita.town — a webring for students. The webring supports personal websites. It helps more people use the web to express themseves freely. The community now also takes part in building software for the larger students of their university such as:
- clubs registry — an upto date registry of all the university clubs
- Timetable Utilites — to do cool things from raw data
- timetable-registry — raw structured data of all the timetables

I also organize CTFs, Events, and campus talks. I was a mentor and a judge at the Byte Battle national hackathon.