Shravan Vadeghar
Systems and platform engineer designing low-level cloud infrastructure, custom C++ compilers, and high-concurrency distributed backends.
Architected and scaled the ServerHive bare-metal developer cloud across 2,000+ ecosystem commits (20+ repositories) from day zero to 1,800+ developers and 3B+ production build actions. Upstream contributor to Cline (69k★) and BlackboxProtobuf. Former defense software research intern at DRDO.
About Me & Engineering Ethos
Systems engineer designing bare-metal infrastructure from the kernel up.
I'm Shravan Vadeghar, a systems and backend platform engineer based in Hyderabad, India. I build at the intersection of low-level Linux systems, custom C++ compilers, and high-concurrency distributed backends.
As the Creator & Founding Engineer at ServerHive, I built an autonomous developer cloud ecosystem across 2,000+ ecosystem commits (20+ repositories) from day zero to 1,800+ developers and 3B+ production build actions. I built the entire platform: automated Telegram and web dashboard server rentals, real-time AOSP build monitoring, ML-driven compilation time prediction, AI error log diagnostics, in-browser VS Code workspaces, 80TB+ distributed storage in Rust, and custom C++ Ninja compiler acceleration.
Before ServerHive, I conducted defense systems software research at the Research Center Imarat, DRDO (Defense Research and Development Organisation), where I engineered the LabComm secure communications platform with strict hierarchical RBAC and automated OCI cloud deployments. I also integrated speech models from Project Bhashini (co-developed with IIIT Hyderabad) to build conversational hospital intake systems adapted for regional Telugu dialects, cutting transcription error rates by 40%.
Kernel to Silicon First
Abstract only when necessary. The real bottlenecks in large distributed systems live in syscall context switching, lock contention, cache thrashing, and un-isolated multi-tenant memory pressure.
Autonomous Developer Infrastructure
Eliminate manual DevOps friction. From sub-second bare-metal server provisioning to real-time build monitoring, automated upload recovery, and ML-driven compilation forecasting.
Upstream Open Engineering
Do not hide behind proprietary hacks. When Google's AOSP Ninja or Cline's agent execution engine has a performance bottleneck, dive into the source, patch it, and merge it upstream for the ecosystem.
Career & Engineering Track Record
What we actually designed, built, and shipped across bare-metal clouds, compilers, AI systems, and defense platforms.
Creator & Founding Engineer
Started ServerHive from scratch and grew it to over 1,800 active developers, 100+ daily active build nodes, and 3B+ cumulative production build actions. We set out to give developers instant access to dedicated bare-metal power at a fraction of hyperscaler costs, cutting build times from hours to minutes.
Engineered the core platform that lets developers rent, configure, and boot dedicated high-memory servers in seconds. Developers could jump straight into fully pre-configured build environments from their terminal or browser with zero manual setup.
Rewrote key parts of Google's upstream Ninja build system in C++ to traverse massive 180,000-node dependency graphs much faster, integrated with a tier-based Redis-compatible SLA engine enforcing dynamic multi-tenant concurrency quotas (12 to 96 vCPUs). This cut full Android 14 and 15 clean build times from 4+ hours down to under 40 minutes for ROM developers.
Architected our own complete Remote Execution API (REAPI v2) gRPC caching proxy and build engine from scratch in Go and Rust. Instead of depending on expensive third-party cloud providers, we built local ByteStream caching with RocksDB and Sled, federated a 3-node stateful cluster mesh, and validated Merkle tree cache integrity. This eliminated vendor lock-in, delivered sub-2ms cache lookups, and saved thousands in monthly cloud costs.
Engineered an automated AOSP build monitoring subsystem that detects Android compilation instantly, tracks build progress in real-time, and sends automated Telegram alerts with direct artifact download links the moment a build finishes.
Created an automated artifact pipeline that automatically catches interrupted uploads of large ROM zip files, verifying file freshness and resuming right where they dropped so developers never lose a 2-hour build.
Built custom cloud storage in Rust using Tokio and Axum to store and stream 80TB+ of build artifacts and OS images for 30,000+ monthly users. Saved over 25x in storage costs compared to AWS S3 and Google Cloud.
Secured multi-tenant servers with an SSH bastion gateway using one-time passwords and SSH key authentication. Plumbed process limits to automatically prevent fork bombs from crashing shared host machines, and inspected outbound traffic to stop network abuse like unauthorized torrents.
Engineered automated virtual machine management using KVM and libvirt. Enabled one-click cloud-init OS installations (Ubuntu, NixOS, OPNsense), dynamic CPU hotplugging, and browser-based VNC access.
Software Engineering Intern
Engineered real-time AI agents integrated directly into WhatsApp, turning the everyday chat interface into a highly practical utility platform for daily users. Connected autonomous tool-calling loops with live utility services—such as instant travel ticket status checking and phone number identity verification—alongside self-hosted image and video generation pipelines.
Built conversational AI agents that operate directly inside WhatsApp, providing daily users with an instant, zero-friction interface for everyday tasks without having to download separate apps.
Integrated automated tool-calling workflows for everyday utility actions, including live travel ticket checking and phone number identity verification, with sub-50ms query responses.
Architected and deployed self-hosted generative image and video pipelines that let WhatsApp users prompt, generate, and receive media directly inside their chat threads with low turnaround times.
Engineered low-latency microservices in Python, TypeScript, and Rust with persistent state machines, automatically recovering from flaky partner APIs without dropping user session context.
Bridged real-time messaging between WhatsApp and Telegram via custom Matrix Protocol bridges, maintaining reliable zero-message-drop delivery during traffic spikes.
Software Developer Intern
Built an AI-assisted hospital intake system that conducts preliminary patient interviews, listens to spoken symptom descriptions, and prepares structured medical intake reports for doctors.
Integrated speech-to-text models from Project Bhashini (co-developed with IIIT Hyderabad) into the clinical patient intake platform, fine-tuning them for regional Telugu accents, rural colloquialisms, and medical vocabulary to reduce transcription error rates by 40%.
Engineered an automated voice ingestion system with voice activity detection and background noise filtering so nurses and doctors could use the system in noisy clinic reception areas.
Built real-time evaluation pipelines that extracted symptoms, duration, and patient severity to generate standardized EHR clinical notes ready for doctor review before appointments.
Software Developer Intern
Architected and deployed LabComm, a secure inter-laboratory communication, file sharing, and project tracking portal for defense scientists and officers.
Developed the backend web application in Python and Django with strict multi-tiered role-based permissions (Employee, Officer, and Chief Officer) to ensure defense communications remained securely compartmentalized.
Built a secure integration with Google Workspace OAuth2 APIs that dynamically created encrypted video meeting links on demand when inter-laboratory collaboration requests were approved.
Containerized the platform with lightweight Alpine Docker images and built automated GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows to build, test, and deploy releases directly onto hosted Oracle Cloud infrastructure.
Wrote custom automation scripts using Expect and custom Django management commands so new server containers could initialize and configure secure admin accounts automatically without manual intervention.
Bachelor of Engineering — Information Technology
Architectural Systems & Platforms
Production systems, custom compiler patches, low-latency gRPC gateways, and Linux virtualization fabrics.
ServerHive Developer Cloud Platform
Autonomous developer cloud and build automation ecosystem engineered across 2,000+ ecosystem commits (20+ repositories). Enables developers to rent, boot, and manage high-memory dedicated servers with instant in-browser VS Code workspaces, dynamic build work queues, slice-level PSI cgroup v2 throttling, ML-driven compilation forecasting, and automated artifact delivery.
Debugging & Patching an Uncatchable Hardware Sync Flood on AMD EPYC (Zen 4)
Root-cause analysis and upstream Linux kernel patch proposal resolving silent hardware resets on dual-socket AMD EPYC 9454 (96 vCPUs) bare-metal servers under sustained multi-tenant Android compilation workloads. Decoded non-volatile hardware crash dumps, reconstructed PCIe completion timeouts, and eliminated a silicon-level deadlock triggered during runtime power management transitions.
ServerHive Autonomous Orchestrator & Settlement Engine
Autonomous bare-metal cloud orchestrator and multi-rail payment settlement gateway built from scratch across 347 commits and 74,000+ lines of async Python (uvloop). Bridges distributed compute nodes behind restrictive enterprise NATs via bi-directional reverse gRPC streaming, automates sub-5s payment reconciliation, and orchestrates multi-tenant server leases with speculative dual-agent AI models.
AOSP Platform Build Engine & Custom Ninja Compiler
Large-scale Android Open Source Project (AOSP) compilation engine featuring a custom-patched upstream C++ Ninja compiler, tier-based Redis-compatible SLA enforcement, Soong anti-starvation scheduling, and Bubblewrap sandboxing.
ServerHive Self-Hosted Remote Build Execution Platform
Architected ServerHive's self-hosted Remote Execution API (REAPI v2) build cache and gRPC proxy from scratch in Go and Rust. Built to completely replace expensive third-party RBE providers (like BuildBuddy or Google RBE) with our own bare-metal infrastructure, saving thousands of dollars in monthly cloud bills while delivering sub-2ms cache lookups.
ServerHive Drive Storage Daemon
Custom high-throughput distributed cloud storage daemon written in Rust, delivering chunked streaming uploads and encrypted user-quota management across 80TB+ of build artifacts.
Tata Sky IPTV Stream Resolution Engine
Automated direct M3U playlist generator and token reverse-engineering engine for IPTV portals, with live stream resolution and token rotation.
Windows Subsystem for Android Automation Pipeline
Automated CI/CD pipeline script to build and bake Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) packages integrated with Google Apps (GApps) in one click.
Open Source & Upstream Contributions
Ranked among the top GitHub contributors in India, with high-impact upstream patches in tier-1 developer tools and autonomous agents.
fix(assistant-message): optimize parsing to prevent hangs on large text renders (#3274)
Replaced O(N²) character-by-character accumulator with precomputed tag lookup maps and index slicing in parseAssistantMessageV2, eliminating memory reallocations and UI thread freezing during large streaming token outputs.
Disallow runtime autosuspend on AMD Zen 4 server silicon
Authored Linux kernel patch resolving fatal hardware deadlocks and silent Data Fabric sync floods on AMD EPYC servers caused by runtime power management sleep transitions during heavy compilation bursts.
Fix Burp hanging issues during stream inspection
Offloaded binary Protocol Buffer decoding to a dedicated background worker thread with non-blocking UI state in Burp Suite's HTTP editor, preventing UI lockups when inspecting large payload streams.
feat: Add support for Remote Server CPU & telemetry monitoring
Engineered an asynchronous SSH telemetry pipeline in C# with bounded circular buffer sampling (/proc/stat), dynamically streaming real-time per-core CPU utilization charts into Windows Adaptive Card widgets.
Dynamic Build Work Queue & Slice-Level PSI QoS (#184)
Engineered non-preemptive user-grouped compilation queueing with rolling demand sampling, fast-tail finisher promotion (≥98%), and Linux systemd slice-level PSI cgroup v2 throttling.
Distributed Reverse gRPC Streaming & Autonomous Multi-Rail Settlement (#42)
Architected ReverseConnectionService for NAT-traversing bi-directional streaming from bare-metal nodes, paired with sub-5s automated payment reconciliation across UPI, PayPal, and Stripe Pix.
Technical Arsenal & Systems Proficiencies
Grounded proficiencies exercised across production bare-metal fleets, custom C++ compilers, and defense systems.
Low-Level & Systems Platform
Kernel sockets, CPU pinning, custom compilers, and unprivileged sandboxing.
Distributed Systems & Backends
High-throughput RPCs, Merkle tree caches, and ACID data engines.
Autonomous Agents & AI Pipelines
Sub-50ms tool loops, persistent finite state machines, and streaming audio.
Cloud, OS & Infrastructure
Containerization, secure defense rollouts, and build pipelines.
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Let's build high-performance systems.
I'm open to Founding / Senior Systems Engineering roles, bare-metal cloud infrastructure projects, and custom compiler work.
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