Rishi Panthee

Running My Own Autonomous System

I run a small network on the tiny part of the internet. AS400587 is mine and a small hobby network that I use to learn more about BGP, the internet, networking and routing. This very website is actually hosted there. The servers on the image that you see either to the left(desktop) or at the very top(mobile) are from there, and either the server with the grey sticker or labeled as R is serving this site right now, depending on how the load balancer decided to throw things.

I've learned a lot from running this, including BGP, peering, and network basics like subnetting for both IPv4 and IPv6 on the network side. On the system administration side, I learned how to install OS and the basics of managing and monitoring systems. It's also thought me a little of managing my own business as I've needed to operate this as efficently as possible.

I also use this to selfhost a lot of applications and that's given me system administration experience in the real world. Some of these are used by others(including strangers) as well, and so keeping uptime high has been important.

NFTMart

NFTMart is a project that I worked on the backend for. It's a blockchain based marketplace for NFTs for games. I wrote a backend to cache data and improve the speed of the site, going from taking upwards of 20 seconds to load a page due to multiple requests that need to be made, to a fully loaded page in under 2 seconds with the use of my cache. I wrote the backend in Javascript using Express.JS and MySQL.

Katabasis Game Logger - Senior Design Project

Katabasis is a non profit company who make video games to help lower income areas learn about life skills with the use of video games. Alongside my partners, we built a platform that Katabasis and teachers could use to gauge the help that the games were giving students, and help teachers realize potential shortcomings on their lessions, and Katabasis recognize where the games might need improvements. I worked on the secure backend for this, and using Node.JS, Express.JS, MySQL and Mocha for testing, I build a backend that could store, retrieve, and filters logs as well as handle processing of them at a large scale, while experiencing no slowdowns and ensuring that the data remains secure.