Computer Engineering @ University of Southern Mississippi (BS '28) · Hattiesburg, MS

I write software & design hardware. Linux-native, usually somewhere between userspace and the kernel. Currently a Production Engineering (SRE) Fellow at Meta × MLH and an undergraduate researcher in CV & Agentic AI at USM under Dr. Rabab Abdelfattah.

$ whoami

user        : sakshyam sigdel
role        : SRE / Production Engineering Fellow, Researcher
affiliation : Meta, University of Southern Mississippi, BS CE '28
shell       : zsh  |  editor : nvim  |  wm : hyprland
distro      : arch (btw)
uptime      : 3y in CE, ask me again in 5

stack

Systems

Infrastructure

Other

projects

vimhjkl	⭐ 500+ stars · open-source Vim trainer TUI running inside real vim/nvim · 61 lessons, 222 hand-vetted challenges, Leitner spaced repetition · zero-dependency, shipped via Homebrew & AUR
HyprDrover	Rust session manager for Hyprland · snapshots layouts, monitor assignments, and running apps to JSON; restores the full session with a single CLI call · 5 releases · AUR
Curtain	🏆 winner, Meta PE Hackathon (Scalability Track) · load-balanced Flask + Redis + PostgreSQL · 500 concurrent users @ 0.00% errors, 1.01s p95 · built in 24 h
SenseNav	HackMIT 2025 · top 12 / 320+ teams · assistive navigation fusing ultrasonic ranging + MiDaS depth into spatial audio & haptics
Acroswe	🏆 "Best Use of AI & Blockchain" @ HackPrinceton · ML property valuation + Solidity on-chain transfers

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