Personal Website
This site itself: a fast static home for writing, projects, resume details, and social links.
ENGINEERING & LOGS
Archit Raj Jain
Low-latency software, project notes, and public build logs.
System State:
This site is a fast, file-based notebook for writing down what I am building, what I am testing, and what I learned from shipping it.
PROFILE SNAPSHOT
Based in Bengaluru, India
Contact iamarchitrajjain@gmail.com
Availability Open to internships, freelance work, and interesting collaborations.
Core Focus
- Systems Programming
- Low Latency C++
- Performance Profiling
- Web Architecture
BIOGRAPHY
How I build & write
I believe in software that is fast, robust, and delightful to interact with. This website is my public laboratory—a place to document experiments, publish project logs, share my engineering experiences, and keep links current without complex management interfaces or database latency.
Everything you see runs as static assets compiled with Astro. It achieves a 100/100 Lighthouse performance rating with zero client-side JavaScript required for standard reading, using CSS staggers and native browser capabilities to handle visual rendering.
My coding philosophy is centered around understanding the metal: analyzing CPU profiling, reducing latency overhead, writing clean, readable code, and optimizing build pipelines to deliver high-fidelity outputs.
INTERACT
Get in Touch
Whether you want to discuss low-latency systems, collaborate on an open-source project, or chat about internships—feel free to drop a line.
Send MessageOrganizing complexity. Building with low-latency C++, profiling cache lines, and crafting light-refracting interfaces. The closer you look, the more secrets you will find.
Organizing complexity. Building with low-latency C++, profiling cache lines, and crafting light-refracting interfaces. The closer you look, the more secrets you will find.
TECHNICAL COMPASS
Skills & Tooling
Low Latency
Boost C++
Dear ImGui
Windows App Dev
C++
Python
CMake
Linux
Git
Web Architecture
Programming
- C++(14, 17)
- Python
- CAPL
- MFC
- MSVC
- MySQL
Frameworks & Tools
- gRPC
- gTEST
- Sonarqube
- Tortoise SVN
- Visual Studio
- CMake
Technology
- Automotive ECU
- UDS
- OTX Authoring
- Windows Application
- Multithreading
- Python Automation
SHOWCASE PORTFOLIO
Active Projects
Coursework Tracker
A small tool for planning assignments, deadlines, and study sessions.
Low-Latency Market Feed Simulator
A simulation environment for testing event throughput, queue behavior, and parsing strategies under bursty load.
Retrieval-Augmented Dev Assistant
An AI-assisted developer tool for searching internal docs, notes, and code snippets with grounded responses.
Order Book Visualizer
A visual analysis tool for replaying order book events and understanding microstructure dynamics frame by frame.
Graphics Playground
A collection of rendering experiments, math notes, and visual prototypes.
Inference Benchmark Lab
A benchmarking harness for comparing inference latency, batching choices, and caching strategies across AI workloads.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Work & Education
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer | C++ MFC Clinical Systems
SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS PVT. LTD.Working on a C++ MFC-based clinical imaging workstation for SPECT scanners.
- Supporting core workflows such as patient registration, scan execution, acquisition control, and imaging operations.
- Investigate and resolve Customer Reported Bugs (CRBs) from live hospital environments by analyzing logs, reproducing issues on simulators, performing root-cause analysis, and delivering validated fixes.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to navigate large-scale, safety-critical codebases, ensuring fixes align with clinical workflows and regulatory quality standards.
- Gaining exposure to enterprise healthcare systems and continuously contributing to improving system reliability and performance.
System Engineer - Nissan | C++ Windows Apps
TCSDeveloped and maintained cross-platform tools for automotive diagnostic testing.
- Authentication Tool - Developed ePTI Tool for vehicle handshaking using cryptography and OpenSSL, reducing testing time by 30% and improving test coverage by 15%.
- Diagnostic Sequence Tool Kit - Developing OTX Engine along with library based on ASAM Extension to run diagnostic sequences with cross platform support.
- Developed NRT Tool (Windows Application) which is used by more than 5 OEM Suppliers such as Samsung, BOSCH, and Mitsubishi.
- Technologies - C++, MFC, IMGUI, VS Code, Visual Studio (2005, 2019, 2021), GIT, SVN, Boost Library, nlohmann.
Assistant System Engineer - Nielsen
TCSEngineered data migration pipelines and orchestrator packages.
- Migration - Successfully refactored and migrated Oracle PL/SQL code to Python, improving code readability and reusability by 40%.
- Refactoring - Worked on Development of Python package that orchestrates the processing of derived data and formats for desired output.
- Worked on more than 15 web related customer products.
- Technologies - VS Code, SQL Dev, Putty, WinSCP, Gitbash, Notepad++, JIRA, Bitbucket.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communication Engineering
DEVELOPER LOG & FEED
Scribbles & Notes
Spent 45 minutes writing a Python script to automate a compilation process that takes 10 seconds manually. It was entirely worth it. There is a deep, quiet satisfaction in crafting small single-file tools that solve a single problem perfectly, require zero packages, and run instantly.
We should build more small things that do one thing and stop there. Less architecture, more utility.
Nolan & Narrative Contrast
Rewatched Tenet and Interstellar back-to-back. Christopher Nolan has a unique mastery of narrative and visual contrast:
- Light & Scale: Cutting from an extreme wide IMAX 70mm celestial wormhole view to a tightly cropped, shadow-dense cockpit face shot.
- Textural Depth: Using analog film grain to create tactile weight, making digital screen layouts feel less flat and more three-dimensional.
In UI design, the equivalent is mixing heavy geometric headers with soft glassmorphic backdrops and extremely fine noise layers. Designing websites shouldn’t just be about alignment; it’s about staging.
Caffeine & Compilers
There is a precise window of programming peak between 11:30 PM and 2:00 AM.
The background noise of the city is fully muted, a fresh pour-over of single-origin light roast is cooling on the desk, and the tactile clack of a well-lubed mechanical keyboard feels like playing an instrument. Currently compiling a lock-free circular queue benchmark in C++20 and watching thread contention numbers slide down.
No slides, no slides, just raw assembly optimization loops.
AI projects from prototype to product
What changes when an AI demo needs to become a dependable engineering project with real constraints.
- ai
- engineering
- systems
C++ worklog: the language features I care about right now
A practical look at the C++ features and workflows that matter most in current systems work.
- c++
- systems
- performance
Four years in low-latency engineering
The lessons I trust most after four years of working on performance-sensitive systems.
- low-latency
- c++
- engineering
My low-latency development playbook
The practical checklist I use when building software where response time matters.
- low-latency
- performance
- workflow
Welcome to my site
What I want this website to do, and why I kept the stack intentionally simple.
- meta
- website
How I plan small software projects
A lightweight approach for moving from idea to shipped prototype without overengineering it.
- planning
- workflow
- projects
INQUIRIES
Let's Build Something Cooler
Have an interesting systems programming project, a low-latency requirement, or looking for an engineering intern? Drop a line and let's coordinate.