Vikash Patel

Software Engineer, Building Scalable Systems and writing about my learnings

Now

Current Focus

I’m currently based in Delhi NCR, India, working as a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Go backend systems.

What I’m working on

  • Designing and maintaining high-throughput backend services in Go.
  • Exploring Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), digital certificate lifecycles, and internet security architectures.
  • Building systems tools and libraries including goutils and go-cache.

What I’m exploring

  • Deepening my knowledge of low-level database internals, concurrency primitives, and event-driven pipelines.
  • Building a 2D game engine from scratch in pure Go with raylib (series on lorbic.com).
  • Reading Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder.

Last updated: September 2026

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Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

Jostein Gaarder

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