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Working Atlas · Systems Lab
Explore 22 small, interactive models of queues, APIs, data, and reliability. Change a condition and see what happens, or start with company work and open a related experiment.
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I contribute to Bridge, Setu’s customer dashboard, and Admin, its internal onboarding platform. My work also includes a shared know-your-customer (KYC) flow and day-to-day technical guidance to four engineers.
I progressed from SDE-1 to SDE-2. My work included production applications and a dashboard for a consent-based service that shares financial information across institutions. I worked on features from requirements through deployment and production support.
This synthetic model does not describe a Procedure endpoint or implementation.
Read the project story for implementation details; open a separate model to test one related engineering idea.
AI Video Analytics
Find and inspect brand appearances in long-form video.
Campaign Link Intelligence
Keep campaign links healthy and attribution intact.
AI Search Visibility
Compare brand mentions and citations across repeated checks with AI providers.
Cross-Platform IoT
A cross-platform IoT hub that keeps device connections and app state manageable.
Cross-cutting skills
Try patterns that travel across projects—queues, retries, data order, and load—and see how each choice changes the result.
22 models. Change an input, inspect what happens, and open a project story when a model connects to shipped work.
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Follow campaign context through a redirect chain and see where attribution can become incomplete.
Skill practicedTrace state across service boundaries
Work referenceClickTrail · Destination + Redirect Checks
Why it connectsClickTrail documents redirect checks; this synthetic chain explores how campaign context can disappear between services.
Group click counts and compare fewer database writes with a longer wait before they are saved.
Skill practicedTrade fewer writes for a longer wait before counts are saved
Work referenceClickTrail · Redis Cache + Aggregation
Why it connectsClickTrail documents Redis-backed counter aggregation; this model explores the write savings and unsaved-count risk of batching.
Repeat the same observation and see how a small sample can look like a change.
Skill practicedInterpret small samples without overstating change
Work referenceCiteTrail · Visibility Analytics
Why it connectsCiteTrail runs repeated prompts through AI provider APIs. This synthetic sample shows why small results need careful interpretation.
Push the request queue past capacity and see how many requests finish before their deadline.
Skill practicedKeep useful requests moving when demand exceeds capacity
Work referenceNeuralEye · Async Job Queue
Why it connectsNeuralEye uses asynchronous video jobs; this model explores how queue limits and deadlines affect synthetic requests.
Split five servers into two groups and see why changes need a majority.
Skill practicedReason about quorum safety under partitions
Model contextIndependent teaching model
Why it connectsIndependent systems-design exercise: explore quorum safety when replicas cannot communicate.
Scrub a synthetic distributed-trace waterfall and flip it into a flame graph.
Skill practicedDiagnose latency from distributed traces
Work referenceRelated to NeuralEye project story
Why it connectsNeuralEye documents metrics monitoring, not distributed traces; this separate lab practices locating latency across spans.
See what happens when an event arrives after its reporting window has closed.
Skill practicedChoose how long to wait for late events before closing a window
Work referenceRelated to ClickTrail project story
Why it connectsClickTrail covers campaign-event ingestion, but not watermark rules; this model shows how a late event can miss a closed window.
See how a storage engine saves incoming writes to files, then merges those files in passes.
Skill practicedBalance write effort, read work, and storage space
Work referenceRelated to NeuralEye project story
Why it connectsNeuralEye documents PostgreSQL and Redis; this lab explores a separate storage-engine design.
Hand-draw a load spike, then try to keep the cluster from oscillating.
Skill practicedTune feedback loops and scale stabilization
Work referenceRelated to NeuralEye project story
Why it connectsNeuralEye’s distributed inference makes capacity planning relevant; this synthetic model explores delayed scaling feedback.
See how one lost packet can hold up messages; compare TCP and QUIC.
Skill practicedUnderstand how a lost packet can delay a stream of messages
Model contextIndependent teaching model
Why it connectsCompare two network transports when a packet is lost; the timing here is a simplified model, not a real-network prediction.
Compare two pattern-checking methods as the input grows.
Skill practicedSpot patterns that make input checks grow expensive
Model contextIndependent teaching model
Why it connectsSee how some pattern choices make input checking grow sharply as the text gets longer.
Compare three ways to keep often-requested data ready. Then add new requests and watch how quickly each recovers.
Skill practicedKeep often-requested data ready as demand changes
Model contextIndependent teaching model
Why it connectsA cache keeps reused data close at hand; this model compares how often each rule finds it ready.
Move a detection threshold across known examples and inspect the alerts and misses it creates.
Skill practicedEvaluate confidence thresholds against labeled examples
Work referenceRelated to NeuralEye project story
Why it connectsNeuralEye documents confidence scores and selective verification; this synthetic set explores threshold trade-offs, not its calibration.
Build synthetic GPU inference batches and inspect the throughput–waiting-time trade-off.
Skill practicedBalance inference throughput against worker queue wait
Work referenceRelated to NeuralEye project story
Why it connectsNeuralEye documents batched inference; this model explores queueing trade-offs, not GPU performance.
Use a small counter table to estimate which event types are most common.
Skill practicedFind frequent event types with limited memory
Model contextIndependent teaching model
Why it connectsA small counter table saves memory, but shared counters can make an event look more common than it is.
Trace an access decision through a synthetic role check and workspace boundary.
Skill practicedCheck authorization and tenant isolation boundaries
Work referenceRelated to NeuralEye project story
Why it connectsNeuralEye documents tenant isolation; this exercise separates role checks from workspace scope without reproducing its authorization path.
A write commits, its reply disappears, and the caller tries again. Follow the retry into a bounded idempotency ledger.
Skill practicedReason about retries after uncertain commits and expiry
Work referenceFrom Agent Activity Ledger idempotency contribution
Why it connectsMy public Agent Activity Ledger contribution rejects conflicting event retries; this synthetic order model adds a lost reply and expiry scenario.
Trace a merged change into a human-reviewable documentation draft.
Skill practicedDesign review gates for change-driven automation
Work referenceRelated to Docs Agent at Setu
Why it connectsMy Docs Agent work includes its filter, validator, and verifier workflow. This separate model lets you test those review decisions with synthetic changes.
Edit, delete, or reorder a synthetic event, find the first broken link, then see what a local rewrite can hide.
Skill practicedReason about integrity, ordering, and threat-model limits
Work referenceFrom Agent Activity Ledger contribution
Why it connectsMy public Agent Activity Ledger contribution includes hash-chained verification; this toy model uses synthetic events and limited guarantees.
Change a JSON response and check whether an existing client can still use it.
Skill practicedChange APIs without surprising existing clients
Work referenceFrom Procedure · secure REST API delivery
Why it connectsProcedure work included secure REST API delivery; this invented response illustrates client compatibility risks.
Compare how shared product capabilities trade local freedom for consistency and cross-team coordination.
Interrupt a synthetic device fleet and compare fixed-interval retries with exponential backoff.
Skill practicedReason about client reconnection across device sessions
Work referenceSeronic Hub 360 · WebSocket Transport
Why it connectsMy Seronic Hub 360 work included a Flutter/BLoC client for 10+ WebSocket devices; this model isolates synthetic retry timing.