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.

if you like da work, I'd be happy if you could show your support by buying me a pizza 🍕, it helps keep the lights on and the projects going ☺️