Siraaj Khandkar

contact

• location: Sothern New Hamshire
• email: siraaj@khandkar.net
• Signal: @xand.15

I'm always happy to hear from local kindred spirits who crave a life examined.

intro

I can't stop philosophizing, love building tools and systems, exploring ideas, and treating programming as a uniquely "good medium for expressing poorly understood and sloppily-formulated ideas".

My current weapon of choice is Rust, but I've also enjoyed looking at the world through other goggles: Erlang, OCaml, Racket, C.

work

I've worked on a variety of systems, from HPC cluster administration, to softswitch, to chat server, but the shiniest has to be the million-node P2P distributed system with asynchronous consensus at Helium.

play

• Code: GitHub;
• Books: Goodreads;
• Fitness: Strava;
• Meetups:
  • Tech: Hack Free Or Die, Boston Rust;
  • Latin: Latin Shire, Boston Active Latin.

learn

During 2024-2025 just about all of my extra-curriculum time budget was allocated to Latin.

For 2026, while continuing with Latin, I want to reintroduce the pursuit of the holy grail that I've inadvertently shelved for too many years: math. Initial focus will be proofs and general problem-solving, then Calculus and Linear Algebra, then ... we shall see: I have many directions of interest that I'm not yet sure how to integrate or prioritize. Also hoping to take some stabs at original texts from Newton, Leibniz, and Euler.