Botir Khaltaev | Portfolio https://botirkhaltaev.com Botir Khaltaev's portfolio and blog - Systems Software Engineer specializing in storage systems, operating systems, and ML infrastructure AI Agents Should Be Simple https://portfolio-blog-starter.vercel.app/blog/simple-ai-agents Agent frameworks should start with the right state machine and compose everything else around it. Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Era of Asynchrony https://portfolio-blog-starter.vercel.app/blog/era-of-asynchrony Welcoming the new era of agentic coding via background coding agents. Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Writing a RISC-V Kernel in Zig: Boot, Paging, and a Working Shell https://portfolio-blog-starter.vercel.app/blog/pico-os A walkthrough of a small RISC-V OS kernel written in Zig, covering boot, paging, context switching, trap handling, syscalls, VirtIO, and a tiny shell. Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why Most People Have LLM Routing Wrong https://portfolio-blog-starter.vercel.app/blog/routing-sucks My journey of understanding LLM routing, why current methods are fragile, and a better way to think about it. Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Building ZeroPool: How I Made LLM Checkpoint Loading 3.8x Faster https://portfolio-blog-starter.vercel.app/blog/zeropool The story of engineering a high-performance buffer pool in Rust after hitting unexpected bottlenecks with existing solutions. Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT What 70 Years of Operating System Failures Taught Me About Building Better Software https://portfolio-blog-starter.vercel.app/blog/operating-systems-lessons-70-years Lessons learned from diving deep into operating systems history, and how they apply to every system we build today. Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT