I'm a:
- physics grad with a bent for all things computing
- generalist/polymath/autodidact in constant pursuit of mastery over the machine at all levels of abstraction
- big-time fanboy of robust, scalable engineering, and fast execution speeds
I like:
- physical systems
- software systems
- hardware systems
I previously worked on:
- hacking together methods and tools for computational physics in neutrino phenomenology.
- building systems and AI for robotics in AgTech and automated precision agriculture.
- building, maintaining, and improving tools and systems for on-prem IT/network observability.
I'm currently hacking on an intersection of:
- rust, go, zig, c3, hare, and the ideas behind modern day, high performance, systems programming.
- building low overhead, safe, and fast systems for AI inference, media processing, and scientific computing.
- python, agentic orchestration frameworks, and designing multi-step AI agent systems.
- typescript, UI frameworks, and building chatbot frontends for agentic software backends.
I started writing code and tinkering with systems as a hobby over a decade ago, beginning my career as a scripter/modder for the GTA series of video games. If I'm not upto something, I usually spend my time recreationally learning about and hopping between fields such as:
- quantum information/computing
- numerical methods/analysis
- scientific and high performance computing
- data science/engineering
- AI/ML/DL/CV/NLP
- robotics, automation, and control
- IoT, embedded, GPUs, and hardware accelerators
- compilers and their backends, LLVM IR, MLIR, optimizations
- devtooling and devex
- web/mobile/desktop and application development
- classical information/coding theory
- graphics and game development
- IT, network, and systems engineering
- devops and infrastructure design
- computation, programming language design, automata, and type/category theory
in no particular order.
Find me tinkering at
- bkataru's workshop
- bkataru's recreations
- bkataru's experiments
- bkataru's playgrounds
- bkataru's forks
Check out The Impulses Project, my love letter to the field of software engineering.
