Sahil Bansal

Sahil Bansal

India

Software engineer @SafeDep working on OSS security. Exploring database and Linux internals on the side.

What I work with

Go
SQL
gRPC
Docker
C
DB Internals
Linux Internals

Previously worked with

Dart
TypeScript
JavaScript
Flutter
Firebase

🔍 Things I'm Proud Of

📦 Built AtomixDB, a SQL-based database from scratch in Go

  • → Gained 460k+ views, trended on Hacker News, and caught the eye of engineers worldwide
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🎤 Invited by Just Eat Takeaway for a tech talk on AtomixDB

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🔒 Built Runbox, a lightweight sandboxing system in C

  • → Process isolation using Linux namespaces with seccomp-based syscall filtering and resource limits via cgroups v2
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Experience

SafeDep

Software Engineer

January 2026 - Present

SafeDep

Software Engineer Intern

March 2025 - December 2025

CodingJr

Software Developer Intern

June 2024 - Oct 2024

Storehive

Flutter Intern

April 2024 - June 2024

Projects

Go

AtomixDB

A custom-built SQL database with full ACID compliance

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C

Runbox

A lightweight sandboxing system for process isolation and resource management

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Go

Storage Engine

A storage engine built from scratch in Go - implementing database internals from first principles

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