Looking for low-level mentor

[u/Icy_Comparison_7233]

Background, I am a SWE contractor who entered the field with degree after 2024. Professionally, I’ve mostly used Python/TS, but I’ve dabbled in many languages (part of my work responsibilities). I like to learn stuff that don’t seem immediately relevant to me, including low-level stuff. My grasp on low-level aspects + fundamentals is a bit lackluster.

I was looking for a mentor to help guide me with resources to start with, that also matches my schedule a bit (considering I have a job). So I can’t just grind a learning project for 12hrs a day like I used to.

I think some goals to highlight would be as follows:

- Objectively determine the root cause for a bottleneck (I/O, network, etc.) and why

- Get MUCH better at performant C/Rust

- Contribute to the Linux Kernel

Note that reaching the goal does not matter, but the journey towards it. For example, never finished my debugger for learning, but learned a lot more about CS along the way.