Chinmay Singh

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.

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Case · Solo Developer NLP Search Engine Designed and built a modular NLP search pipeline from scratch with clean separation between ingestion, preprocessing, and indexing — resulting in a working inverted index and keyword lookup system ready for future enhancements like ranking and semantic search. Case · Infrastructure Engineer VPS Infrastructure & Self-Hosted Services Platform Designed and deployed a production-ready self-hosted infrastructure platform running multiple services with secure remote access and automated HTTPS

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I Locked Myself Out of My Own Server. Again.

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.

EngineeringInfrastructureNetworking
Building the Core of a Search Engine Step by Step [Stage 1]

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.

search-engine

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.

Software ArchitectureMicroservices

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Open to internships, collaborations, and conversations about systems engineering. Always happy to chat.

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