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Praneeth Reddy Arikatla - 0xViking

Senior Backend Engineer · 7+ yrs distributed systems · Pivoting into Inference Engineering - in public

📍 India (UTC+5:30) · 🌐 praneethreddy.me

Currently deep into LLM serving internals: vLLM, KV cache economics, continuous batching. Open to inference/LLM-infra conversations.


What I'm doing now

Inference engineering pivot · Oct 2026 - ongoing

24-week self-directed program covering the serving stack: vLLM internals, KV cache memory accounting, continuous batching, TTFT/ITL optimization, quantization, K8s deployment. Proof of work over certificates - building an inference benchmark lab and contributing upstream. First issue in vLLM: #60048 (docs vs code on KV cache defaults). Daily build-in-public thread on X.

Senior Software Engineer · backend/infra, 7+ years · Python, Kafka, K8s, distributed systems. Previously: DeFi monitoring systems for Circle/USDC at Solidus Labs - Databricks, Snowflake, Solana ingestion, Kubernetes workers.

Building on the side

📍 doora.to Memorable addresses for India — handle like praneeth@home → ±5 m location via India Post's DIGIPIN. Next.js · TypeScript · Supabase · Vercel. No app, no signup.
🛰️ OrbitUPI Research-grade lens on India's UPI ecosystem — live volumes, app share, bank-level breakdowns.
📊 Bharat Pay Index Daily index of India's digital-payments health — throughput, success rates, regulator signals.
🛠️ ByteHash Chain-agnostic smart-contract testing. web3con winner — 2nd place + Best dApp on Polygon ($11K).

Stack I reach for

Python · TypeScript · React · Next.js · FastAPI · Kubernetes · Docker · Helm · Kafka · Redis Snowflake · Databricks · Apache Spark · Flipside · AWS · Terraform · GitHub Actions Web3.py · Ethers.js · Solidity · Hardhat · Tailwind · Elasticsearch · Retool · Kibana Claude Code · Anthropic API — daily power-user for agentic, spec-driven workflows. 3×–5× productivity gains on feature work, refactors and incident response.

Where I've been

TU Berlin (Alliance4Tech Exchange) · Politecnico di Milano · Andhra University B.Tech CSE · ISB Hyderabad TEP · Plutus Pioneer 2nd cohort, Cardano Foundation · 15+ casino slot games shipped at Ivy Software (2017 — 2020).


Find me

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  1. 21DaysOfLearnandShare 21DaysOfLearnandShare Public

    A challenge to myself to learn and share resources about the topic i choose

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  2. bytehash-tech/web3conHack bytehash-tech/web3conHack Public

    This repository is for our web3con hackathon bootsraped by Developer_Dao

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  3. comppaz/patchwork-kingdoms comppaz/patchwork-kingdoms Public

    Code Hub for Giga's 1000 NFT collection called "Patchwork Kingdoms".

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  4. EthereumSlayerGame EthereumSlayerGame Public

    NFT Game Starter Project: https://github.com/buildspace/buildspace-nft-game-starter

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  5. NFT-DataOnChain NFT-DataOnChain Public

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  6. 0xViking.github.io 0xViking.github.io Public

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