Concurrency · Build systems · Caching
ForgeGraph
Run only the work that needs to run, in parallel, and show why each cache decision happened.
- Warm cache
- 11 / 11 hits
- Targeted invalidation
- 4 tasks
- Race detector
- go test -race ✓
Building developer tools, systems software, and agentic infrastructure
Shikhar Goel
Software Engineer
I design and ship systems software: incremental build engines, database observability, and local agent infrastructure — tested, measured, and released.
ForgeGraph·go test -race ✓
WalScope·Python 3.12 + 3.13 CI ✓
AgentBar·700-test release suite ✓
Selected systems work
Engineering Deep Dives
Three tools with architecture, tests, and measured results — not demo wrappers.
Pinned reader
mxFrame 28
nBackfill 3
lag 25
reader released
mxFrame 28
nBackfill 28
lag 0
SQLite internals · Binary formats · Concurrency
WalScope
Inspect WAL and wal-index state without opening the target database through SQLite.
- Largest parse
- 4,153 frames
- Local time
- 0.236s
- Checkpoint lag
- 25 → 0 frames
Swift · macOS · Local integrations
AgentBar
Live agent/session monitoring in the menu bar, with privacy-conscious local metadata.
MIT upstream foundation — substantially extended
- Release suite
- 700 tests
- Failures
- 0
- Skip
- 1 Keychain (intentional)
Experience
Work
AI Intern
Bharat Electronics Limited
July 2026 — Present · Bengaluru
Working at the intersection of applied AI and production engineering.
- — Exploring practical AI systems inside a high-trust engineering environment.
- — Current project details will be added after the demo phase.
Remote AI Intern
Facillima
May 2026 — June 2026 · AI startup · Remote
Shipped product-facing work and researched the AI evaluation landscape.
- — Built and deployed the startup’s education website end-to-end.
- — Evaluated Braintrust, LangSmith, Tangmango, and Graphy to inform tooling and platform decisions.
Systems
Go · Concurrency · Caching · Binary formats
Languages
Go · Python · TypeScript · Swift · C++ · SQL
Infrastructure
SQLite internals · CLI design · CI · Single-binary distro
Full Stack
React · Next.js · Node.js · REST APIs
Agentic systems
Local integrations · MCP · Evaluation
Open source
Git · GitHub · Reviews · Releases
Catalog
Projects
Systems & Developer Tools
Local incremental build engine in Go with a React DAG dashboard: bounded concurrency, content-addressed caching, and explainable invalidation.
Warm cache 11/11 · 1ms
Zero-runtime-dependency Python CLI that inspects SQLite WAL and wal-index files with open(..., 'rb') — no sqlite3 connection to user databases.
4,153 frames · 0.236s
Agentic Infrastructure
Extended an MIT-licensed Swift/SwiftUI menu-bar monitor with privacy-conscious session tracking, provider quota integrations, and a 700-test release suite.
700 tests · 0 failed
Full Stack
Malaria Detection
A lightweight CNN with Grad-CAM explainability, trained on 27,560 NIH cell images with augmentation and early stopping.
94.3% accuracy · 0.983 AUC
Supply Chain Intelligence
A soft-voting ensemble using spatial-temporal features to classify deliveries as on-time, at-risk, or delayed.
43,739 records · 88% delayed precision
Customer Churn Predictor
EDA, preprocessing, feature engineering, and model evaluation across logistic regression, random forest, and XGBoost.
7,000+ records · 87%+ accuracy
Finance & Subscription Tracker
Relational expense tracking with budget-enforcement triggers, a HiddenCosts view, and live SQL audit logging.
React · Node · MySQL
Hackathons
Evidence Review Agent
Analyzes conversations, images, user history, and evidence rules with schema validation, risk flags, caching, and fallbacks.
#37 / 1,773
DeadlineOS
A deployed hackathon product for deadline planning and productivity management, taken from build through final submission.
Built for Vibe2Ship
Let’s talk systems.
Open to software engineering roles across developer tooling, infrastructure, backend, and full-stack work.
shikhardeepgoel@gmail.com