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Suriya

Hi! 👋

I’m Suriya (pronounced Soo-r-ya)

I’m an Engineer, who loves to write. Suffice to say, I write here when I’m trying to think through something or when I’ve solved something.

I’m currently doing my Masters in Privacy Engineering at CMU, and my research is on the intersection between Machine Learning, Privacy and Systems Software.

I Love reading and experimenting with Distributed and embedded systems.

I enjoy meeting new people. So definitely send a shout-out to me at, hi at suriya.cc. 🙂

📚 books that I’ve read/reading

🚪 Privacy Things

🧑🏻‍🏫 Readlog

🛍 ToDo

📜 essays

You can find the table of contents here

Recent Posts

Product Building and fundamentals,   Dec 10 2024

Just like any other tech-pilled software engineer. I’ve spent my free hours and days working on side projects in the hope that someday to live Independent to the corporate day job and working on something I own full time....click to read


Why I Build.,   Nov 26 2024

I’ve spent all my free time building arcane projects that don’t matter. Despite being tired, or stressed from my day job....click to read


Suriya's Newsletter,   Nov 24 2024

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Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,   Nov 15 2024

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light....click to read


Poetry,   Nov 14 2024

Python package management is a nightmare. Poetry somewhat solves it. new project poetry new <project_name> new shell poetry shell setting up pipx first...click to read


The Practice,   Nov 6 2024

Shipping, because it doesn’t count if you don’t share it. Creative, because you’re not a cog in a system...click to read


Writing,   Nov 5 2024

I write a lot. and I forget a lot. Taking a lot of notes is part of how I stay sane and get even part of the things that I want to get done....click to read


Newsletters and blogs that are interesting,   Oct 16 2024

Pg’s Essays Incredibly interesting if you are into the startup world and are generally curious about how the world operates. I highly recommend The Submarine and The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius Joel Spolsky’s blog Joel’s Essays are super good....click to read


Organizational Wisdom,   Oct 16 2024

What started with Nabeel Qureshi’s Reflections on Palantir led me into an incredibly deep and rich rabbit hole of companies, intensity, operating them and, a whole host of new (to me) industry operators within the palantir circles such as, Tyler Cowen, Shyam Sankar, etc....click to read


Awesome incubators/collectives for startups,   Oct 15 2024

Socratics website: https://socratica.info twitter: https://x.com/socraticainfo Open collective for builders, present in Multiple cities in the US and Canada. Really cool demos from their hackathon...click to read


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