Abizer Lokhandwala
2015-2019 - UC Berkeley: BA CS 2017-2019 - OCF: Site, General Manager 2019-2023 - Facebook: Production Engineer 2024-.... - Reviewforge AI, Arini AI #lang racket (let ([user "abizer"] [host "abizer.me"]) (displayln (string-append user "@" host)))
I am a software engineer, specializing in distributed systems and infrastructure optimization.
Academic Interests
My academic interests tend towards computer infrastructure: networking, databases, and operating systems; distributed systems in general and large-scale infrastructure in particular. I am also interested in the systems engineering applications and implications of artificial intelligence.
I like the idea of continuous optimization of engineered systems to discover the optimal design for a particular problem, and spend a lot of time thinking about how to design systems reliable enough to withstand constant tinkering and rearchitecting without becoming unavailable as we search the design space.
Extracurricular Interests
The general theme of my non-academic interests might be classified as examples of 'elegance in mechanical complexity': cars, watches, keyboards, datacenters, near-east architecture, etc.
Outside of engineering my interests include
- philosophy and metaphysics,
- history and anthropology,
- chemistry and biology,
- neuroscience and pharmacology,
- sociolinguistics and dialectology,
- jazz and desert blues,
Things I Am Learning or Thinking About
- Artificial Intelligence
- How infrastructure should be designed
- Problems inherent to large-scale systems
- Practical probability theory
- Software usability and managing complexity
- Human Input Devices
- Technical strategy and tactics
- Startup strategy and tactics
- Programming Languages for Language Models
Click here for quote from my favorite game, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri:
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