Satpreet Makhija

Hey, thanks for visiting my site.

I’m Satpreet. I think a lot about abstractions—how we formalize intuition into symbol, and how those symbols quietly shape the way we reason. This fascination plays out in two very different arenas for me.

Professionally, I’ve worked on distributed systems, building platforms, infrastructure, and backend systems, most notably at Google’s Distributed Cloud team. Good software is abstraction itself—hiding complexity so others can build on top of it.

But I’m equally drawn to the history of abstraction itself. Mathematics is the oldest and most compressed language we have, and I find myself wondering about the etymology of its notation—how it shapes the way we reason. I built MathAncestry out of that curiosity: think git blame for math symbols.

I’m a voracious reader and enjoy writing (read my latest piece). You can tell a lot about a person from their reading list—here’s mine.

The easiest way to reach out to me is via email: work[dot]satpreet[at]gmail[dot]com.