Acerca de Baalateja Kataru
Building fast, safe, efficient, and robust open source software
Greetings,, I'm Baalateja 👋
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
- https://github.com/bkataru-workshop
- https://github.com/bkataru-workshop
- https://github.com/bkataru-recreations
- https://github.com/bkataru-experiments
- https://github.com/bkataru-playgrounds
- https://github.com/bkataru-forks
Check out https://github.com/impulsesproject, my love letter to the field of software engineering
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