Karthik

FAFO expert

I love learning about distributed systems, Kubernetes, containers, and Linux internals, and building things around these topics. I spend most of my time going down tech rabbit holes and teaching myself whatever catches my curiosity.

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Native Blog

Serverless Is Great, Until You Let Strangers Run Code on Your Machines

03 May '26

20 min readunikernelsLinuxKata-containersgvisorknative

Native Blog

I Built a container runtime from scratch in c++

17 Apr '26

20 min readContainersLinuxnamespacesCgroupsOverlayFS

X Article

What the Linux process stack actually looks like the moment your program starts.

11 Mar '26

8 min readLinuxOS InternalsC/C++

Open Source

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FIX: add validation for containerID

25 May '26

Openurunc-dev/urunc· 238

FIX: Allow builds to reconcile even if the secret doesn't have `build.shipwright.io/referenced.secret=true` annotation

30 Apr '26

Mergedshipwright-io/build· 809

CHORE: remove cancelled() checks from vm_test workflow

28 Apr '26

Mergedurunc-dev/urunc· 238

Projects

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kinctx

A terminal-first command library. Store commands in a local SQLite database, search them with fzf, fill in placeholder values, and execute the final command.

GoCobraBubbleteahuh

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Aegis

Linux container runtime in C++ using namespaces, cgroups v2, OverlayFS, and pivot_root to deliver strong process isolation, resource control, and reproducible container environments.

C++Linux SyscallsOverlayFSCgroupsV2

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"If you put 10,000 hours in a thing you'll eventually become expert at it so the question should be am I putting 10,000 hrs of work in this thing"

Andrej Karpathy