[{"content":"","permalink":"https://hrushi20.github.io/Blog/about/","summary":"","title":"About"},{"content":" Chip-8 Emulator Built a CHIP-8 emulator in C++ with instruction decoding, memory/register handling, timers, keyboard input, and display rendering to strengthen systems-level fundamentals.\nSelf-Hosted NixOS Infra Built a self-hosted NixOS setup with reproducible builds, encrypted ZFS storage, monitoring/alerting, and offsite backups to improve reliability and recovery for media hosting.\n","permalink":"https://hrushi20.github.io/Blog/project/","summary":"\u003cdiv class=\"projects-grid\"\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"project-tile\"\u003e\n    \u003ch3\u003eChip-8 Emulator \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/Hrushi20/chip8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"Chip-8 GitHub\" style=\"display:inline-flex;vertical-align:middle;margin-left:6px;\"\u003e\u003csvg xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" fill=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\u003e\u003cpath d=\"M12 .5a12 12 0 0 0-3.79 23.39c.6.11.82-.26.82-.58v-2.04c-3.34.73-4.04-1.42-4.04-1.42-.55-1.38-1.34-1.75-1.34-1.75-1.09-.75.08-.74.08-.74 1.2.09 1.84 1.25 1.84 1.25 1.08 1.84 2.82 1.31 3.5 1 .1-.78.42-1.31.76-1.61-2.67-.31-5.47-1.35-5.47-5.98 0-1.32.47-2.39 1.24-3.24-.12-.31-.54-1.56.12-3.25 0 0 1.01-.33 3.3 1.24a11.4 11.4 0 0 1 6 0c2.28-1.57 3.29-1.24 3.29-1.24.66 1.69.24 2.94.12 3.25.77.85 1.24 1.92 1.24 3.24 0 4.64-2.8 5.67-5.48 5.97.43.37.82 1.1.82 2.22v3.29c0 .32.21.69.82.58A12 12 0 0 0 12 .5Z\"/\u003e\u003c/svg\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h3\u003e\n    \u003cp\u003eBuilt a CHIP-8 emulator in C++ with instruction decoding, memory/register handling, timers, keyboard input, and display rendering to strengthen systems-level fundamentals.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Projects"},{"content":"N. Hrushikesh Rao Software Engineer focused on systems, performance, and backend engineering.\nSummary Engineer with experience across systems programming, backend development, and runtime optimization. I have worked on open-source projects through Google Summer of Code and Linux Foundation Mentorship, with a focus on performance, developer tooling, and production reliability.\nContact Location: Hyderabad, India 📧 Email 💻 GitHub 🔗 LinkedIn Experience Goldman Sachs | Analyst 2024 - Present\nWorking in the post-trade derivatives settlement function for OTC products. Building and improving distributed payment systems that process settlement flows for OTC derivatives. Contributing to reliability and operational stability of critical post-trade payment pipelines. LFX | WasmEdge Sept 2023 - Nov 2023\nDesigned and implemented a WasmEdge FFmpeg plugin in C/C++ to address missing GPU/AVX-optimized media processing workflows in Wasm runtimes. Offloaded compute-intensive video and audio tasks to the host while returning results safely to the runtime. Created a Rust SDK to simplify integration and developer usage. Achieved approximately 150% improvement in compilation/processing performance. Reference: LFX WasmEdge 2023 Experience GSOC | Jenkins May 2022 - Sept 2022\nImproved Jenkins controller Git performance by introducing automated Git maintenance (prefetch, gc, commit-graph). Built an Apache Jelly UI for scheduling and managing maintenance tasks using cron syntax. Implemented a producer-consumer, multi-threaded architecture for maintenance operations. Measured impactful speedups on maintenance operations in project outcomes: prefetch (~35x), commit-graph (~410x), and loose objects cleanup (~10x), with JUnit-based validation. Reference: Jenkins GSoC 2022 Project - Automatic Git Cache Maintenance Skills Java, C++, Rust, JavaScript, SQL Distributed Systems, Backend Engineering, Payment Systems Linux, WebAssembly, Performance Optimization NixOS, ZFS, Infrastructure as Code Git, Jenkins, Docker, CI Testing Education MTech Computer Science | JNTU Hyderabad Aug 2019 - May 2024\nPursued Computer Science with coursework in Operating Systems, Databases, and Software Engineering.\n","permalink":"https://hrushi20.github.io/Blog/resume/","summary":"\u003ch1 id=\"n-hrushikesh-rao\"\u003eN. Hrushikesh Rao\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftware Engineer focused on systems, performance, and backend engineering.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"summary\"\u003eSummary\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEngineer with experience across systems programming, backend development, and runtime optimization. I have worked on open-source projects through Google Summer of Code and Linux Foundation Mentorship, with a focus on performance, developer tooling, and production reliability.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"contact\"\u003eContact\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLocation: Hyderabad, India\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e📧 \u003ca href=\"mailto:hrushikesh20thegreat@gmail.com\"\u003eEmail\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e💻 \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/hrushi20\"\u003eGitHub\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e🔗 \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/hrushikesh-rao-7741311b0/\"\u003eLinkedIn\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"experience\"\u003eExperience\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; gap:10px;\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg src=\"../images/logos/goldman-sachs.svg\" alt=\"Goldman Sachs\" width=\"44\" /\u003e\n  \u003cspan\u003eGoldman Sachs | Analyst\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2024 - Present\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Resume"}]