SEP 2026 — PRESENTCURRENTLY
Judgment Labs
Member of Technical Staff
Building infrastructure and working on agents.
BACKGROUND
Tarun Ajjarapu.
ML systems engineer.
I work on infrastructure and agents at Judgment Labs. My focus is ML systems: concurrency, reliability, and the machinery behind ML.
FOCUS
Concurrency. Durability.
Failure modes.
I’m a Member of Technical Staff at Judgment Labs, where I’ve been working on infrastructure and agents since September 2026. Before that, I built log delivery infrastructure at Databricks and worked on payments at Stripe.
I studied Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin, with a minor in Business. My projects cover operating systems, lock-free concurrency, and memory allocation.
This site collects technical writing, code experiments, and Tarun Has No Life: a channel for detailed breakdowns of systems and ML infrastructure.
EXPERIENCE
Engineering work.
2026JOINED IN FEBRUARY
Databricks
Software Engineer
Rust-based, multi-cloud log delivery across 69+ production clusters. Building for reliability, durability, and observability at scale.
MAY — AUG 2025
Stripe
Software Engineer Intern
Local payment methods, Kafka-backed workflows, and tools that made it faster to bring new partner metadata into the payments platform.
JUN — AUG 2024
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Software Engineer Intern
Retrieval and ranking services that helped developers find answers across internal documentation.
JUN — AUG 2023
Trend Micro
Research & Development Intern
Python APIs and AWS infrastructure that turned 100+ periodic telemetry requests into a single aggregated request.
SELECTED PROJECTS
Systems in code.
01 / RUST · NETWORKING
Lock-free web server
A custom lock-free thread pool with compare-and-swap operations and cache padding.
Built & benchmarked · 202502 / C · OPERATING SYSTEMS
Pintos operating system
Scheduling, virtual memory, system calls, synchronization, and file systems.
Operating systems · 202403 / C++ · MEMORY
Dynamic memory allocator
A first-fit allocator with block splitting and coalescing, balancing throughput with memory utilization.
Memory management · 2023
EDUCATION
UT Austin.
The University of Texas at Austin
B.S. Computer Science · Minor in Business
Class of 2025
OFFLINE
Outside work.
Climbing, tennis, running, and skiing. I also cook and read sci-fi and fantasy.
I started programming by making games.