Tanmay Bagaria

Software engineer at Oracle working on backend systems, databases, streaming, vector search, and AI agents.

Curious about systems, both technical and natural. I spend my time working on backend and AI systems, exploring how things fit and scale. I enjoy reading, wandering and learning how things work.

Outside of tech, I'm exploring sustainable ventures on my family's tea estate.

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Work

  • Oracle America Software Engineer, 2020-present. Databases, cache, scale-out engines, streaming, vector systems, AI agents.
  • MentorCruise Tech Mentor, 2020-2021. Helped professionals build and ship web applications.
  • Fetch Rewards Software Engineer Intern, 2020. App and internal productivity tooling.
  • UW-Madison Undergraduate TA, 2019-2020. AI, systems programming, algorithms.
  • UW Biochemistry Undergraduate Researcher, 2019. Clustering algorithms for protein interaction data.
  • Zomato Product Manager Intern, 2018. Market research, client outreach, and growth.

Projects

Recent work

  • Terroir Quality intelligence for agri-processing.
  • Multi-Tenant Inference Platform vLLM serving for multi-tenant LLM inference with workload isolation, SLA-aware allocation, and efficient GPU utilization.
  • World Cup Scout AI football scouting from match video using segmentation and multimodal analysis. Runner-up, Google I/O Kickoff 2026. demo github
Earlier projects from college
  • Flood Watch Location-based flood alerts using elevation data and weather APIs. Best JS, HackUIowa 2019. devpost
  • Farm Excess Surplus-produce marketplace with smart recipe suggestions. Best GCP, MinneHack 2019. devpost
  • Entity Matching Fuzzy CSV matching with 91% accuracy.
  • LandYourGreen.space Real-time land auctions with SMS alerts and environmental analytics.
  • Chain Voting Experimental blockchain voting system with Firebase auth and Python TCP sockets. devpost

Writing

Kafka Transactions

May 2025

A concise look at Kafka's transaction coordinator, producer epochs, and commit markers.

Reading

Papers
  • Learning to Adapt Pre-trained Language Models to Unseen Domains 2023
  • Efficient Online Learning for Large-Scale Real-Time Systems 2022
  • Understanding and Optimizing Multi-Stage AI Inference Pipelines 2023
  • The Tail at Scale 2013
  • Attention Is All You Need 2017
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks 2020
  • Direct Preference Optimization 2023
  • Life Beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate’s Opinion 2008
  • Tango: Distributed Data Structures over a Shared Log 2013
  • Harvest, Yield, and Scalable Tolerant Systems 1999
  • Amazon's Dynamo 2007
  • MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing 2004
  • The Google File System 2003
Technical
  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications Martin Kleppmann
  • Site Reliability Engineering Google SRE Team
  • Clean Architecture Robert C. Martin
  • The Pragmatic Programmer Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt
  • The Beginning of Infinity David Deutsch
  • Seeing Like a State James C. Scott
  • Finite and Infinite Games James P. Carse
  • The Psychology of Money Morgan Housel
Non-fiction
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman
  • The Psychology of Money Morgan Housel
  • The Simple Path to Wealth JL Collins
  • Secrets of Sand Hill Road Scott Kupor
  • Platform Revolution Geoffrey G. Parker et al.
  • How to Create a Mind Ray Kurzweil
  • The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Chip War Chris Miller
  • The WEIRDest People in the World Joseph Henrich
  • Man's Search for Meaning Viktor E. Frankl
  • The Revolt of the Public Martin Gurri
  • The Black Swan Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Poor Charlie's Almanack Charles T. Munger
  • The Art of War Sun Tzu
  • The Book of Why Judea Pearl
Fiction
  • Project Hail Mary Andy Weir
  • Snow Crash Neal Stephenson
  • Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng
  • The Midnight Library Matt Haig
  • Recursion Blake Crouch
  • The Vegetarian Han Kang
  • Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Exhalation Ted Chiang
  • Stoner John Williams
  • Piranesi Susanna Clarke
  • The Tartar Steppe Dino Buzzati
  • The Rings of Saturn W.G. Sebald
  • The Employees Olga Ravn

Wandering

Jungfraujoch alpine landscape in Switzerland add photo
Jungfraujoch Switzerland, 2026
Mesa Verde National Park landscape add photo
Mesa Verde Colorado, 2025
Rocky Mountain National Park landscape add photo
Rocky Mountain Colorado, 2025
Milky Way over Mauna Kea in Hawaii add photo
Mauna Kea Hawaii, 2025
Death Valley National Park desert landscape add photo
Death Valley California, 2024
Crater Lake National Park blue lake and caldera add photo
Crater Lake Oregon, 2024
Cinder Cone at Lassen Volcanic National Park add photo
Cinder Cone Lassen, 2024
Grand Teton National Park mountain landscape add photo
Grand Teton Wyoming, 2023
Yellowstone National Park hot spring add photo
Yellowstone Wyoming, 2023
Glacier National Park mountain landscape add photo
Glacier Montana, 2023