about me

i'm siddhant bayas, a systems engineer from maharashtra, india. i'm 18 years old, still a student, but already sure about one thing: i like knowing how things work down at the metal.

it started in the fifth grade, out of necessity more than anything. my parents got me a lenovo g580, an intel celeron, 2gb of ram, basically dead on arrival for anything modern. nothing ran on that thing properly, so i had no choice but to start tinkering. swapping dlls, messing with random settings, just trying to get basic stuff to work. somewhere along the way, tinkering turned into an actual love for coding.

the real turning point was the covid lockdown. i found discord and telegram bots (and userbots) and got obsessed, thought it was the coolest thing ever that you could build something like that yourself. no courses, no bootcamp, just youtube, w3schools, stackoverflow, and github at 2am figuring things out one error at a time. that's what made me curious about how code actually works underneath everything. still chasing that same question, just deeper down the stack now.

these days i gravitate to systems and infrastructure, the unglamorous middle where most performance and most outages actually live. i'm happiest near the low layers: databases, networking, toolchains, and the small details that separate software that works from software that holds up.

i also contribute to open source, most actively to @beeware/briefcase. it's a good fit because it lives at the same intersection i do: taking complex native toolchains and making them behave consistently across platforms. shipping that kind of work in public is the best learning loop i've found.

let's talk

i'm open to internships, freelance, and anything technically interesting; i reply fast, usually within a day. and if you want to know how i'll work: i type fast, i read the docs before i ask, and i'd rather debug a hard problem than watch one pretend to be one.