# Aseem Savio

> Aseem Savio is a software engineer who designs and builds data-intensive distributed systems, owning them from architecture to delivery. He maintains PyTenable, writes about software architecture, and photographs wildlife.

Canonical site: https://aseemsavio.com/
Last updated: 2026-11-02

## Identity

- Full name: Aseem Savio
- Role: Software engineer specialising in data-intensive distributed systems
- Focus: Event-driven architecture, throughput, backpressure, consistency, storage, SLAs, and delivery
- Known for: Maintainer of PyTenable, Tenable's official Python SDK, used by 85,000+ people each month
- Experience: 8+ years shipping software (since 22 August 2018)
- Writing: https://blog.aseemsavio.com
- Photography: https://photography.aseemsavio.com
- Code: https://github.com/aseemsavio
- Contact: https://aseemsavio.com/#contact

## Canonical pages

- [Home](https://aseemsavio.com/): biography, current work, open source, writing, contact
- [Answers to common questions](https://aseemsavio.com/llms-full.txt): short factual FAQ about Aseem Savio, in the "Answers to common questions" section
- [Blog](https://blog.aseemsavio.com): software architecture, distributed systems, and data
- [Photography](https://photography.aseemsavio.com): wildlife and nature photography

## Open source

- [PyTenable](https://github.com/tenable/pyTenable): official Python SDK for Tenable's REST and GraphQL APIs. Maintainer.
- [dynamo-kt](https://github.com/aseemsavio/dynamo-kt): immutable data classes and a DSL for AWS DynamoDB, generated at build time. Kotlin.
- [Biblia Sacra Vulgata](https://github.com/aseemsavio/Biblia-Sacra-Vulgata): REST API for the Latin Vulgate and an English translation, with an in-memory store. Kotlin and Spring.
- [Catholic CLI](https://github.com/aseemsavio/catholic-cli): command-line theological knowledge base for ancient Latin and English texts. Python, on PyPI.
- [Papaya CMS](https://github.com/aseemsavio/papaya-cms): lightweight headless blog engine. Rust.
- [catholicism-in-json](https://github.com/aseemsavio/catholicism-in-json): the Catechism, Canon Law, and the General Instruction of the Roman Missal as JSON. Python.

## Writing

- [The Document Hippies vs. the Relational Police vs. the Graph Nerds - and the People Who Just Use Postgres](https://blog.aseemsavio.com/posts/the-document-hippies-vs-the-relational-police-vs-the-graph-nerds-and-the-people-who-just-use-postgres) - 27 October 2026
- [How to Build Systems That Won't Explode (Immediately)](https://blog.aseemsavio.com/posts/how-to-build-systems-that-wont-explode) - 23 October 2026
- [How I Spun Up 5 Million Virtual Threads Without Stalling the JVM](https://blog.aseemsavio.com/posts/how-i-spun-up-5-million-virtual-threads-without-stalling-the-jvm) - 17 July 2022

## Off the clock

Coffee, baking, piano, wildlife photography, F1, PS5, self-hosting on Kubernetes, and Catholic theology.

## Machine-readable

- [Profile JSON](https://aseemsavio.com/profile.json): structured facts about Aseem Savio
- [Image index](https://aseemsavio.com/images.json): descriptions of every image on the site
- [Sitemap](https://aseemsavio.com/sitemap.xml): pages and images
- [Full LLM profile](https://aseemsavio.com/llms-full.txt): longer, citable version of this file

## Citation

Savio, Aseem. "Aseem Savio - Software Engineer, Distributed Systems." aseemsavio.com. https://aseemsavio.com/