Hey, I'm Pradyumn. I build low-level systems, Linux appliances, and explore graphics engines.

Most of my time goes into experimenting with operating system plumbing: boot paths, static init supervisors, Wayland compositor internals, and immutable filesystems.

• kurogane (Rust) — Static micro-supervisor (kurogane-init) and immutable Linux appliance engine. Packages workloads into compressed, read-only EROFS images (lz4hc,12) with decoupled Wayland mediation (cage + seatd) and zero-allocation pre-exec sandboxing. Boots under 1.8s in QEMU. Live portal at is.gd/kurogane.
• chronodb (Rust) — Embedded append-only storage engine. Memory-mapped zero-copy reads, CRC32-C verified pages, crash-safe writes, and sub-microsecond point-in-time (as-of) entity queries.
• hyprquickshell (QML, Shell) — Daily driver desktop setup. Arch Linux + Hyprland interface built on Quickshell and Qt6/QML, with Matugen dynamic theming and turnkey automation.
• kaze-os (Shell) — Modular Arch Linux build engine generating specialized Wayland desktop flavors (Hayate, Kasumi, Nagomi).
• saknussemm (JavaScript, GLSL) — Scroll-driven subterranean web journey honoring Jules Verne. Custom 2.5D volumetric light beams (god rays), normal-mapped rock strata, and WebGL fluid distortion shaders.
• impulse3d (TypeScript) — Zero-dependency 3D rigid-body physics engine with an interactive Three.js playground.

Patches and bug fixes I've submitted to tools in my daily workflow:

• hyprwm/hyprlock#1091 — Defers auth initialization until the session lock surface is acquired.
• python/cpython#159081 — Corrects UnicodeDecodeError byte offsets in utf-8-sig when input has a BOM.
• astral-sh/ruff#29810 — Fixes parser bug treating relative imports from __future__ as future imports.
• janbjorge/pgqueuer#954 (Merged) — Driver refactor removing unused task manager ports.
• oxpull/django-ox#149 (Merged) — Adds ox_retry and ox_discard CLI commands.
• Other work in hyprwm/Hyprland, hyprwm/hypridle, psycopg, and Cap.