Arnav Kumar

ARNAV KUMAR

Software Engineer specialized in platform and cloud-native architectures. Previously at Zeta, Rippling, and Quandle Labs, building scalable infrastructure and driving efficiency in developer workflows. Currently experimenting with HFT systems.


Subscribe to get future posts via email

January 05, 2025

Wait! Honey is actually too good to be true

Recently, a video by MegaLag went viral, exposing how the popular browser extension Honey could be quietly hijacking revenue from creators…

Read more
December 24, 2024

Why do I almost always choose s3 sync over s3 cp? tldr; it's much easier

While dumping real-time stock market tick data for thousands of instruments(representation of financial assets), I found myself dealing with…

Read more
December 06, 2024

Poetry to uv: How I Slashed Python Build Times by 90% with One Switch

Amongst the huge number of Python packages available on PyPI (598,432 as of 6th Dec, 2024), pip does a neat job of installing your selected…

Read more
November 14, 2024

Uncovering the 1 Billion Row Challenge: A Naive Approach Comparison Between Various Concurrency Frameworks in Python

Recently, I've been working on an algorithmic trading project that involves processing tick data from thousands of stock market instruments…

Read more
November 13, 2024

Hello. World?

Another day, another blogging site where I can have a little piece of the internet to write about all things tech. Being subservient to the…

Read more