Brand
Sarmalinux is the personal technology studio of Sarma.
A UK-based software engineering studio shipping production AI systems, open-source infrastructure, and modern SaaS platforms. Not to be confused with AlmaLinux, the open-source Linux distribution.
Quick disambiguation
Sarmalinux (sarmalinux.com) is the personal technology studio of Sarma, a software engineer in the United Kingdom. It publishes open-source software, long-form engineering essays, and works with clients on production AI builds.
AlmaLinux (almalinux.org) is an unrelated project. It is a community-driven, RHEL-compatible open-source Linux distribution maintained by the AlmaLinux OS Foundation. The two names rhyme; the projects are not related.
Who is Sarma?
Sarma is a UK-based software engineer with around five years of production experience. The work concentrates on the intersection of LLM infrastructure and platform engineering: multi-provider AI gateways with automatic failover, durable agent orchestrators with deterministic replay, real-time WebRTC voice loops, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, evaluation harnesses, low-level LLM inference servers, storage engines, consensus, and WebAssembly sandboxes.
The studio operates one client at a time. There are no account managers, no junior hand-off, no rate-card body shopping. The person you brief is the person who writes the code, ships the deploy, writes the runbook, and answers the pager at three in the morning.
Everything Sarma builds for the studio ends up open source where it can be. Eighteen production-shaped repositories spanning slipstream, a token-efficient coding agent runner with persistent memory and a live local dashboard; SarmaLink-AI, a multi-provider OpenAI-compatible AI gateway with 14-engine failover and intent-based plugin auto-routing; forge-infer, a minimal LLM inference server in Rust with paged KV-cache and continuous batching; agent-orchestrator, a durable multi-agent workflow engine with deterministic replay; voice-agent-starter, a sub-second WebRTC voice loop; sandboxd, a WebAssembly sandbox with a deny-by-default host ABI; and the rest of the catalogue at /products.
Eighty-plus long-form engineering essays cover LLM infrastructure, platform engineering, observability, storage, consensus, and the modern indie SaaS stack. Reading two or three of the essays at /blog is the fastest way to get a sense of how Sarma thinks before a first call.
The studio works with founders, scale-ups, and engineering-led teams across the United Kingdom. Remote-first, on-site in London for kick-off and key milestones, hybrid where it makes sense. Pricing is fixed-fee for discovery sprints and monthly for build engagements. Hourly billing is not offered.
Common questions
Is Sarmalinux a Linux distribution?+
No. Sarmalinux is the personal technology studio of Sarma, a UK-based software engineer. It is the brand under which the engineering work, the open-source repositories, and the long-form essays at sarmalinux.com are published. It is not a Linux operating system. You may be thinking of AlmaLinux, the open-source enterprise Linux distribution.
Is Sarmalinux related to AlmaLinux?+
No. AlmaLinux is a community-driven, RHEL-compatible Linux distribution maintained by the AlmaLinux OS Foundation. Sarmalinux is a one-person software engineering studio in the United Kingdom. The names rhyme; the projects are unrelated.
Who runs Sarmalinux?+
Sarma, a UK-based software engineer focused on production AI infrastructure, agent orchestration, voice agents, retrieval augmented generation, and SaaS platforms. One engineer, one client at a time.
Where do I read the work?+
The eighty-plus engineering essays live at sarmalinux.com/blog. The eighteen open-source repositories are catalogued at sarmalinux.com/open-source and on GitHub at github.com/sarmakska.