Srikar Chittemsetty
Welcome! I'm Srikar — I study computational & applied math and philosophy at the University of Chicago, and I'm currently a software engineering intern on the infrastructure & platform team at ForkLaunch in San Francisco. I build systems that stay correct when things fail: exactly-once execution, retrieval that can be measured, ingest that survives overload. This site is the working record.
Featured Projects
Hapax
A crash-durable task store for AI agents that guarantees a side effect happens exactly once, even under kill -9 at any point. 500 randomized crashes produced 0 double charges; a naive implementation under the identical harness produced 121.
Python / Go / PostgreSQL / Distributed Systems
2026
Aporia
Semantic search over primary-source philosophy that classifies whether a passage argues for or against a claim, not merely whether it is about the topic. On a held-out set written after the fix, 20 of 21 queries surfaced the philosopher who actually holds the position.
Python / FastAPI / Next.js / TypeScript
2026
Peras
A metrics ingest pipeline that survives the label explosion that OOM-kills a naive one — proven by exit code. Same 20M-sample workload in the same 256 MB container: the naive ingester dies at 8M samples; Peras completes all 20M at 1.67M samples/s with ~3 MB of heap.
Go / gRPC / OpenTelemetry / Kubernetes
2026
Open Source
Merged public contributions to external developer tools and SDKs.
Bound decompressed size of gzip request bodies
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib