Hi, I'm Chinmay Singh.
Systems & Backend Engineering
Systems-oriented CS student passionate about backend development, networking, and self-hosted infrastructure. Building reliable systems end-to-end.
Recent Writing
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I Locked Myself Out of My Own Server. Again.
A personal reflection on how building and breaking my own infrastructure taught me more about networking, reliability, and responsibility than any classroom could.
Building the Core of a Search Engine Step by Step [Stage 1]
This article guides you through building a modular NLP search pipeline by first designing a clean architecture with distinct layers for ingestion, normalization, and tokenization, then connecting them to assign document IDs, build an inverted index, and support basic keyword searches.
Monolith or Microservices? Choosing the Right Architecture for Scale
A simple yet deep breakdown of monolithic vs microservices architecture, why scaling changes everything, and how companies like Netflix turned system design into a competitive advantage.
Let's Connect
Open to internships, collaborations, and conversations about systems engineering. Always happy to chat.