<!-- ======================================================== 🖥️ GitHub Profile README — The Minimalist System Architect Clean, text-focused, philosophy-driven engineering identity. ======================================================== --> # Priya Sharma > *"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."* > — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry --- Software Architect · Open Source Contributor · Systems Thinker San Francisco · [priya.dev](https://priya.dev) · [priya@priya.dev](mailto:priya@priya.dev) --- ## Work I design and build distributed systems that serve millions of users with sub-100ms latency. My engineering philosophy centres on **clarity over cleverness**, **correctness over speed**, and **simplicity as the ultimate sophistication**. Currently: Principal Architect at **[Company Name]** — designing the next generation of real-time data infrastructure. Previously: Staff Engineer at [Prev Company] · Senior SWE at [Earlier Company] --- ## Open Source Everything I build professionally informs what I contribute to publicly. I believe that good open-source work is the most honest form of an engineering portfolio. **Active maintainer of:** - **[artemis](https://github.com/your-username/artemis)** — A zero-dependency, sub-microsecond event bus in Rust. *2.4k stars* - **[nullsafe](https://github.com/your-username/nullsafe)** — Type-safe nullable handling for Go, inspired by Haskell's Maybe. *1.1k stars* - **[schemagen](https://github.com/your-username/schemagen)** — CLI tool generating type-safe clients from OpenAPI 3.1 specs. *847 stars* **Notable contributions:** - Submitted 12 patches to the Linux kernel (networking subsystem) - Core contributor to [envoy-proxy](https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy) — merged 6 PRs - Contributed SIMD optimisations to [ripgrep](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep) --- ## Technology **Languages I trust:** Rust · Go · C · Python · SQL **Infrastructure I design with:** Linux · eBPF · Kafka · Postgres · Redis · gRPC · Protobuf **Tooling philosophy:** Reach for the standard library first. Add a dependency only when the cost of building is truly higher than the cost of owing. --- ## Writing & Thinking I write infrequently but carefully at [priya.dev/writing](https://priya.dev/writing). Recent posts: - [*Why Most Microservices Are Actually Distributed Monoliths*](https://priya.dev/writing/distributed-monoliths) — 34k reads - [*The Hidden Cost of Eventual Consistency*](https://priya.dev/writing/eventual-consistency) — 21k reads - [*Rust Isn't Hard — Its Complexity Is Honest*](https://priya.dev/writing/rust-honest-complexity) — 18k reads --- ## Currently Reading - *A Philosophy of Software Design* — John Ousterhout - *The Art of Doing Science and Engineering* — Richard Hamming - *The Unix Programming Environment* — Kernighan & Pike --- ## GitHub Activity  --- *340 pull requests merged across 47 repositories · 12 Linux kernel patches · 4.5k GitHub stars earned* --- Open to: **Principal / Staff Architecture roles** at companies that take engineering craft seriously. Not open to: Unpaid work, "equity only" arrangements, or roles that don't involve real systems problems. --- ^{Updated June 2024 · Built with intention, not templates.}