A brief prologue on breaking things, reading books, and figuring out how the world works.
"The most important step a person can take is always the next one."
— Brandon Sanderson, OathbringerI'm a 19-year-old engineering student in Mumbai, exploring ideas at the intersection of robotics, embedded systems, control theory, and machine intelligence. Also I like math the way I like everything else: solve it, question it, visualize it, and keep going until it makes sense.
The stupidest way I can describe myself: part-time smart, full-time curious & dumb.
I build things, break things, and occasionally understand why. When I'm not doing that, I'm probably reading or chasing some random question that caught my attention.
Major architectures, models, and systems built from scratch.
"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are definitely not."
— An exhausted engineer at 2 AMDAgger-refined diffusion policy for stable quadrupedal locomotion on MuJoCo Go2 using MPPI expert rollouts.
Bare-metal OS on Raspberry Pi with HDMI and a Pong game from scratch.
A lightweight, from-scratch C++ inference engine for parsing and executing ONNX machine learning models.
Quick prototypes, hardware hacks, and ideas that started on a Friday night or Saturday morning.
"It worked on my machine at 3:14 AM, so we are calling it a success."
— Unofficial Lab Rule #4Ground-up 2D convolutional neural network written in pure NumPy without autograd frameworks. Derived forward passes, backward cross-correlation gradients, and Adam optimization.
Minimal Vision Transformer built in PyTorch to explore patch embeddings, multi-head self-attention mechanisms, and visual attention rollout maps.
A C-based terminal audio spectrum visualizer that captures system audio via PulseAudio and renders real-time FFT frequency analysis.
A from-scratch C++ 3D ray tracer built to learn the fundamentals of 3D graphics, following Ray Tracing in One Weekend.
Books, papers, and philosophies that rewired how I think.
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges"Guilt, psychological unraveling, and the dangerous rationalization of an intellectual ego."
"System 1 intuition vs. System 2 deliberation — how cognitive biases and heuristics dictate our choices."
"A sweeping post-apocalyptic saga on human nature, survival, and the clash between light and shadow."
"Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 7 — chaotic, unhinged survival, high-stakes tactics, and emotional depth."
Where to find me when I'm not getting lost in books.
"The best conversations usually start with an unexpected question."
— The Way of KingsAlways open to discussing robotics, intelligent systems, embedded systems, weird engineering problems, and ofcourse good book recommendations.