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:

• the fundamentals of nim, swift, rust, go, zig, c3, hare: the ideas behind modern day, high performance, pedal-to-the-metal systems programming, and how they abstract the many moving parts in a machine's architecture.
• building low overhead, safe, and fast/efficient systems for AI/ML inference pipelines, agentic (gen) AI workflows, media processing tasks, HPC/computational physics routines, and general-purpose scientific computing systems using modern systems programming methodologies.
• python, agentic orchestration frameworks, and designing multi-step AI agent systems.
• typescript, UI frameworks, and building chatbot frontends for agentic software backends.
• designing multi-step, multi-agent, DAG-based orchestrator system runtimes and surrounding tooling in rust & zig for fast, lightweight, efficient, local, general-purpose arbitrary agentic workflows with small language models (SLMs)
• nim (nimlang), and the quest to discover and document the uncharted capabilities of an obscure yet handily powerful, python-like, systems programming language.

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.