I am interested in how objects are stored, represented, transmitted, and secured across networks, databases, and web applications. My favorite subject in school was Databases, where we learned about how Databases deal with Concurrency, Transactional Integrity, Index Data Structures For Queries For varying query manners, such as Geospatial, General, Full-Text Search, and Approximate Nearest Neighbor Searches. For Personal Projects I have used Databases for each of these purposes and have spent a lot of effort to understand best case use scenarios, tradeoffs, and general manners of how each type of database engine deals with certain queries.

I also found network interesting, and in particular learning about BGP was transformative to my idea of what truly makes a network and a networking device. I have also ventured into experimentations in VM / Container Setups to understand how different drivers deal with traffic routing. For example, how does the default Docker Bridge Engine route traffic to your containers? This would be based on the fact that Docker spins up a bridge network on your host machine, spins up a network namespace for each container, and then uses a veth peer to set up a connection between the bridge network and the containers network namespace, and adds routes to your host machine to the bridge. Then when you move to networking drivers that implement the CNI specification, and needs to manage routes accross multiple nodes, you deal with an extended problem set.