Aman Gautam

cat ~/hello.md

Hey, glad you found your way here.
A little corner of the internet for what I build & who I am.

whoami

Hey! I’m Aman ✳

A software engineer who likes figuring out what happens behind the scenes.

I build backends, distributed systems, and tools for developers. Usually with Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and a healthy curiosity about how things work.

Previously at DragonX Systems (AIC, IIT Delhi), working on GPU-accelerated chip-design infrastructure. I also contribute to open source.

Sometimes, I close the laptop and head outside. The mountains make a pretty good change of scenery.

Say hello on LinkedIn

Aman on a tree-lined path — me, away from the keyboard.↑ click to switch

⌖ Greater Noida, Indiabackend · distributed systems · open source

cat ~/off-the-clock.md

Aman exploring a mountain landscape beside a turquoise lake

LESS SCREEN TIME. MORE SKY.

A different kind of headspace.

A few moments beyond the code. Trees, mountain air, and a camera roll that isn’t all screenshots.

@i.rigel_28

cat ~/journal.md

Life, between the lines of code.

Day-to-day moments, things I’m figuring out, and the occasional detour.

ON MEDIUM ↗

Oct 25, 2026

Tier-3 College, DSA, MERN, Java, and a Lot of Rejections.

Oct 22, 2026

I Work at an EDA Startup. But There’s Another Project I Can’t Stop Building.

Sep 23, 2026

Life Takes Turns You Never Planned For

cat ~/experience.md

the more professional part of this page.

DX↗

DragonX Systems AIC, IIT Delhi

Jul – Oct 2026

Founding Software Engineering Intern

GPU-accelerated ASIC physical-design infrastructure.

Accelerated OpenROAD timing repair with CUDA and incremental static timing analysis: 15.7× faster GCD timing repair and 62% lower Ibex repair runtime.
Automated hardware-specification generation using the OpenAI API and built a pipeline for hardware design-space exploration.

ls ~/projects/

a few things I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about.

CODOVYN

A desktop IDE built on Code-OSS. Editor, terminal, Git and an AI task workspace, together.

JavaScriptNode.jsSQLite

GitHub

ResQNet

An experimental offline emergency network. SOS messages travel between nearby devices through multi-hop mesh routing.

Java 21AndroidMesh networking

GitHub

Real-Time Collaborative Sync Engine

A distributed real-time collaborative editing platform built on Spring Boot, WebSockets, Redis Pub/Sub and Kafka, with Operational Transformation, consistent-hash routing, event sourcing and snapshot-based recovery across three horizontally scaled nodes.

Java 21Spring BootWebSocket / STOMPOperational Transformation

GitHub

ConvoMesh

A distributed chat platform composed of five Spring Boot services behind a Spring Cloud Gateway. Messages move through WebSocket/STOMP gateways into Kafka, are consumed by a notification service, and fan back out to every connected client through Redis Pub/Sub — with PostgreSQL keeping the durable history.

Java 17Spring BootSpring Cloud GatewayWebSocket / STOMP / SockJS

GitHub

git log ~/open-source

small patches, shared progress. selected merged contributions.

Kestra1 selected PR+

Aligned topology task duration bars with the Gantt execution timeline, improving task timing and state visibility.

Align topology task duration bars with Gantt — PR #21898

Gradle2 selected PRs+

Fixed documentation accuracy and improved Configuration Cache diagnostics through the Problems API.

Update documentation: fix Groovy plugin documentation sample — PR #38312 Report configuration cache warn mode through Problems API — PR #38320

Spring Kafka2 selected PRs+

Fixed override property handling and clarified listener processing semantics in the Kafka client stack.

Ensure non-string override properties are consistent — PR #4391 Improve description of MessageListener in container properties — PR #4417

InsForge9 selected PRs+

Authored and merged PRs spanning documentation infrastructure, public API discoverability, storage API accuracy, dashboard bug fixes and CI hardening.

Compress MCP setup videos and add documentation asset guidelines — PR #1412 Add OpenAPI specification for schedules API — PR #1732 Document S3 proxy mode upload and download strategies — PR #1827 fix(dashboard): include cron schedule in schedule search — PR #1833 feat(dashboard): remove direct GitHub dependency from dashboard header — PR #1858 docs(openapi): add usage API specification — PR #1859 ci: SHA-pin tj-actions/changed-files — PR #1875 docs(openapi): document 404 for function invoke methods — PR #1922 fix(dashboard): include latest disk reading in chart — PR #1923

Armeria (LINE)5 selected PRs+

Fixed IDN normalisation, a sparse-map NPE during HTTP/1 connection reset, malformed SAML single-logout handling, and a flaky properties endpoint group restart test.

Fix IDN normalization for authorities with ports — PR #6860 Fix NPE in Http1ObjectEncoder.doWriteReset() when pendingWritesMap is sparse — PR #6899 Armeria HTTP/RPC framework contribution — PR #6902 Handle SAML SLO requests without an issuer — PR #6908 Stabilize properties endpoint group restart test — PR #7077

Apache RocketMQ1 selected PR+

Fixed broker-side POP record handling for non-existent consumer groups.

[ISSUE #9980] Skip invalid POP records when consumer group does not exist — PR #9982

Kubernetes Java Client1 selected PR+

Clarified dependency management behaviour to prevent accidental cleanup changes from breaking multi-module builds.

Clarify dependencyManagement usage for shared dependencies — PR #4491

cBioPortal1 selected PR+

Fixed incorrect HTTP 500 responses for missing genes in the REST API, aligning behaviour with correct 404 semantics.

Return 404 instead of 500 for missing reference genome gene — PR #11910

Moderne (OpenRewrite)1 selected PR+

Improved OpenRewrite Spring migration recipes so deprecated JdbcTemplate overloads using Object[] arguments are transformed correctly.

Fix JdbcTemplateObjectArrayArgToVarArgs for Object[] argument reordering — PR #885

JabRef3 selected PRs+

Improved duplicate detection across compatible publication types, enabled Backspace keyboard shortcuts on macOS, and corrected line-based text editing in multiline fields.

Allow Backspace in keyboard shortcuts — PR #17277 Handle compatible entry types symmetrically in duplicate detection — PR #17442 Respect line boundaries in text input shortcuts — PR #17460

cat ~/links.md

Let’s build something good.

Have an idea, a tricky problem, or just want to say hi?

work.amangautam2128@gmail.com

let’s have a coffee