gotlou

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: within India

Technologies: Rust, C++, C, Python, Go, Postgres, MySQL, SQL, Linux, Nix, Java, C#

Résumé/CV: https://gotlou.com/resume.pdf

Email: hi@gotlou.com Blog: https://gotlou.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saksham--mittal

I'm a 2025 grad, and am looking for a good full time software engineering role. I've worked at Morgan Stanley as a fullstack engineer on complex services to help ingest IB documents into an internal LLM based search tool, and as an intern at a small single digit headcount startup remotely on Chromium patches to aid in web scraping. I experiment with lots of new tech constantly, especially with coding agents, and strive to improve my systems. Recently I've gotten into self-hosting my own instances of Nitter and Redlib, and created an agent harness of my own called omega to help maintain private forks of software I use, like Tailscale.

I'm particularly interested in open source, computer networking and associated software. I recently reverse engineered the Playstation app with a combination of static and dynamic techniques and automated updating metadata by pulling it straight out of the obfuscated native libraries it is embedded in. I've been constantly updating and experimenting with my NixOS config to improve security, privacy and/or add more self-hosted services. Back in college I hacked around and built a peer to peer file transfer program to learn Rust, including the file transfer protocol too (you can check it out on https://github.com/gotlougit/p2p-file-transfer or on https://git.sr.ht/~gotlou/p2p-file-transfer). I did this mostly being inspired by Tailscale and also out of frustration of how getting uncompressed photos from friends was a mess.

For more info, check out my Github at https://github.com/gotlougit and my blog at https://gotlou.com

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: within India

Technologies: Rust, C++, C, Python, Go, Postgres, MySQL, SQL, Linux, Nix, Java

Résumé/CV: https://gotlou.com/resume.pdf

Email: hi@gotlou.com

Blog: https://gotlou.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saksham--mittal

I love learning new things and am a fast learner. Currently I am messing around with local LLMs burning my laptop CPU and also writing a new agent harness called omega that uses Unix user separation to sandbox commands and encourages a Linux kernel mailing list-like workflow (blog post to come!). I started dabbling in reverse engineering and set up a nice workflow to keep my reverse-engineered PlayStation App library up to date with new releases after having figured out the native library works with the help of open models.

In the past I've worked on applications ranging from an enterprise Java, .NET and Angular stack, to writing C++ patches for Chromium for web scraping, and have also participated in Google Summer of Code 2023 for the Tor Project on Arti, their Rust rewrite of tor.

Looking for further opportunities, including but not limited to Rust, web browsers and LLMs. Let's get in touch!

For more info, check out my Github at https://github.com/gotlougit and my blog at https://gotlou.com

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: within India

Technologies: Rust, C++, C, Python, Go, Postgres, MySQL, SQL, Linux, Nix

Résumé/CV: https://gotlou.srht.site/resume.pdf

Email: gotlouemail@gmail.com

Blog: https://gotlou.srht.site

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saksham--mittal

I'm a student, and am looking for a good internship experience in the first half of 2024. I am currently a Google Summer of Code contributor at the Tor Project, and have contributed to Arti, the Rust rewrite of Tor in C, working beside the Arti devs.

I'm particularly interested in open source, computer networking and associated software. A while back I hacked around and built a peer to peer file transfer program to learn Rust, including the file transfer protocol too (you can check it out on https://github.com/gotlougit/p2p-file-transfer or on https://git.sr.ht/~gotlou/p2p-file-transfer). I did this mostly being inspired by Tailscale and also out of frustration of how getting uncompressed photos from friends was a mess.

I love learning new things and am a fast learner. Currently I am writing (and using!) a more secure, drop-in SSH agent replacement (at https://git.sr.ht/~gotlou/sshield or https://github.com/gotlougit/sshield) which encrypts SSH keys and unlocks them with a master password, with planned features including using Linux sandboxing mechanisms such as Landlock or seccomp-bpf to make the agent process less prone to RCEs.

For more info, check out my Github at https://github.com/gotlougit

https://xeiaso.net/blog/paranoid-nixos-aws-2021-08-11 is one of my personal favorites, as well as https://tailscale.dev/blog/headscale-funnel

I post tech-related stuff, mostly just about projects I've built and more recently open source contributions under GSoC. The templating system to publish posts is very basic and custom, I wrote it in Python a couple years ago and never looked back.

I also appreciate some other tech, like using MicroG or Tailscale.

By any chance, would you be open to a remote internship? I already have prior knowledge of Rust and am currently a GSoC contributor this year, also in a Rust project.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: within India

Technologies: Rust, C++, C, Python, Go, Postgres, SQL, Linux

Résumé/CV: https://gotlou.srht.site/resume.pdf

Email: gotlouemail@gmail.com

Blog: https://gotlou.srht.site

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saksham--mittal

I'm a student, and am looking for a good internship experience in the first half of 2024. I am currently a Google Summer of Code contributor at the Tor Project, and have contributed to Arti, the Rust rewrite of Tor in C, working beside the Arti devs.

I'm particularly interested in open source, computer networking and associated software. A while back I hacked around and built a peer to peer file transfer program to learn Rust, including the file transfer protocol too (you can check it out on https://github.com/gotlougit/p2p-file-transfer or on https://git.sr.ht/~gotlou/p2p-file-transfer). I did this mostly being inspired by Tailscale and also out of frustration of how getting uncompressed photos from friends was a mess.

I love learning new things and am a fast learner. Recently I migrated to NixOS, and quickly ended up configuring a tmpfs rootfs so I could manage the state of my system better.

For more info, check out my Github at https://github.com/gotlougit

You can check out my blog post[1] if you're interested how I went about it (there are a couple resources at the bottom I used to build it, including the one that HideousKojima recommended).

As for language, in hindsight, C was fine. CHIP-8 is so basic that you don't really need to worry about performance or to implement a JIT compiler unless you want to learn how to do those things specifically. Just pick any one out of the three (assembly is a bit of a weird choice though, why not write a CHIP-8 emulator and then a brand new program to run on that emulator in CHIP-8 assembly if you want to learn assembly?)

As for Gameboy, it would have more instructions, a different graphics system, sound etc. and overall be more complicated than CHIP-8. Try it out if you either feel a bit more adventurous or have implemented CHIP-8.

[0](https://sr.ht/~gotlou/chip8-emulator) [1](https://gotlou.srht.site/chip8-emulator.html)

Example, rather than https://mahdi.blog/raw/raw-permalinks-for-accessibility/, it would be https://mahdi.blog/raw-permalinks-for-accessibility.raw

It's a minor nitpick really, but I quite like this idea! I think I'll try to implement this for my website too.

As for the other people here wondering why User Agents weren't used for this:

- Using static website hosting goes out the window, which is quite a shame because it makes everything so much easier

- User agents are pretty terrible for determining capabilities and intent (what if someone was using curl to get an actual webpage?)

- It will never cover all types of HTTP clients (a whitelist is pretty terrible as we have seen from various online services restricting Firefox users or Linux users from certain features for no other reason than their user agents weren't in the list the developers used to check for the presence of certain features).