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Hi, I'm Bhavdeep Arora

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I'm a 22.6507369969 y/o systems focused software engineer based in Toronto. I've been programming for over six years, always chasing whatever problem catches my interest.

My interests span low-level systems, security tooling, applied ML, and distributed systems, with a quiet passion for environmental engineering. Distributed systems and machine learning is where most of my curiosity lives.

Outside of programming, I love learning new things, reading books Piranesi Words of Radiance The Brothers Karamazov The Sword of Destiny , playing games The Witcher 3 Stardew Valley Outer Wilds Horizon Forbidden West , and exploring outside! Here's what I'm currently up to:

Working On: Groat Playing: Stardew Valley Listening to: NFWMB - Hozier Reading: East of Eden - John Steinbeck Studying: TCP/IP Illustrated - Stevens

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Selected Works

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Thunderhead

A lightweight reverse proxy that scores the intent of incoming HTTP requests to detect and mitigate bot traffic - without relying on Cloudflare or third-party services.

Next.js

TypeScript

Redis

Nginx

Docker

Git

❀ Sits in front of any web app and passively scores each request's intent instead of relying on JS challenges or CAPTCHAs that hurt real users
❀ Combines multiple behavioral signals - crawl patterns, request rate, header anomalies - into a single 0-100 score to tell bots from humans without a single hard rule
❀ Responds proportionally to risk: lets low-score traffic through, slows down suspicious requests with a tarpit, and only blocks outright once a request is clearly malicious

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Verrere

A full stack web application that lets users discover books through an interactive, swipe-based interface, persist personal shelves, and filter preferences by genre.

Next.js

TypeScript

TailwindCSS

PostgreSQL

Prisma

GraphQL

❀ Turns book discovery into a swipe-based deck instead of a search bar, giving instant physics-based feedback on every drag
❀ Tracks every book a user has already seen so genre browsing never repeats a title, even across long sessions
❀ Saves liked books to a persistent shelf and syncs it across devices, so a user's picks are never tied to a single browser

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Groat

A self-hosted LLM proxy that cuts your API bill by routing requests to cheaper models and caching semantically-similar responses - a drop-in LLM-compatible endpoint with no code changes required.

Rust

Axum

SQLite

SQLx

LanceDB

Candle

Docker

Git

Linux

❀ Drops in as an LLM-compatible endpoint, so it cuts LLM spend without touching a single line of an app's existing code
❀ Recognizes when a new prompt is semantically close to one it's already answered and returns the cached response instead of paying for another API call
❀ Watches real traffic over time and surfaces routing rules with estimated savings, so cost cuts are backed by usage data instead of guesswork

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Funes - Funes Documentation Introduction

Funes - Funes Documentation Installation

Funes - Funes Documentation Configuration

Funes

A local-first CLI tool that indexes your files, notes, and shell history, letting you query your machine's history in plain English - no cloud, no accounts, and no subscription.

Rust

SQLite

Ollama

Next.js

TypeScript

TailwindCSS

Vercel

Git

Linux

❀ Lets you ask your own machine questions in plain English instead of grepping through files, notes, and shell history by hand
❀ Runs entirely on-device - indexing, embeddings, and answer generation all happen locally, so nothing about a user's files or history ever leaves the machine
❀ Finds results by meaning rather than exact keywords, so a vague or loosely-worded question can still surface the right file or command from months ago

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Case Studies

Lacunae

Accelerated MRI Reconstruction from Undersampled K-Space via U-Net

U-Net that reconstructs full MRI scans from 25% of the frequency data.

Python

pandas

PyTorch

❀Center 8% of k-space columns always retained - low frequencies carry the bulk of image energy
❀~7.7M parameter U-Net with four encoder/decoder stages and transposed convolution upsampling
❀Benchmarked on NYU fastMRI single-coil knee dataset (Zbontar et al., 2018)

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Precursor

Cross-Asset Momentum Spillover from Commodities to Sector Equities via Granger Causality

Tests whether commodity price momentum predicts sector equity moves 1–5 days ahead.

Python

pandas

Jupyter

statsmodels

❀Tests momentum spillover at lags k ∈ {1,2,3,4,5} trading days across 3,500+ daily observations
❀DAG construction maps in/out-degree centrality to identify leading commodity indicators
❀Backtest evaluates annualised Sharpe, max drawdown, and hit rate on an 80/20 train/test split

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The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

★★★★★

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The Shadow of the Gods

John Gwynne

★★★★★

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The Strength of the Few

James Islington

★★★★★

4w ago

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