Rust Systems Engineer

Arka is a self-taught systems engineer and full-time engineering student, available part-time/contract (~15–20 hrs/week) for $800–1,500/month, flexible based on scope. Open to lower compensation for the right learning opportunity or paid trial. Arka builds software with hardware memory limits in mind, demonstrated by projects like UltimateBufferQueue (lock-free buffer in Rust), S3CacheProxy (local caching proxy using memory-mapped storage), and TelemetryParser (real-time log/metrics parser using raw Linux mmap/mremap for zero-copy ingestion). Despite no corporate background, Arka demonstrates strong reasoning in ownership, thread safety, and memory layout.