suriya

suriya

and his ramblings in the void

hi! 👋

hi, i’m surya. (I publish under my full name, suriya ganesh ayyamperumal).

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 working at oxen.ai on lightning fast version control and model finetuning

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

the great shrinkening

literary length and the shrinking of attention span

the book of elon

Eric Jorgenson

binaries and postgres

Can you just store binaries in postgres?

cloud intro

an intro to cloud for non-engineers.

rl, in pictures and videos

A walk through what is possible with RL drones beating world champions, robots balancing on yoga balls, AIs that paint, fusion reactors, and the ad you saw last Tuesday.

i thou

Martin Buber

recursions

notes on working with recursions and how to use them better

(mostly) successful cases of software rewrites with agents in 2026

skillful orchestrators are able to deploy teams of agents to fold time multi-year projects into a few weeks.

doing performance work?

keep this in mind

when rust ≠ performance. a lesson in devex.

getting 20x speedup by removing code.

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