Hi, I'm Yash Karthik.

Right now, I'm:

• Building a magnetron sputter at Waterloo Fab.
• Learning digital design and trying to design a riscv core on an fpga.
• Studying computer engineering at Waterloo.

Before that, I have:

• Shipped semi-viral web apps built using ai apis.
• Written firmware for drones.
• Run linux on lego ev3.

Some lore:

Five years ago I awoke in a strange new world: I learned to code.

My friend and I were tasked with cleaning-up the robotics lab after a late night session. Rather than spending hours sorting the parts manually, we built a robot to do it for us (finishing the task in a few days instead of hours xD). I knew how transformative technology is. It had been all around us. But actually leveraging it myself to automate a mundane task was when I truly grokked the power of technology. Since then, I've built fast and beautiful web apps; efficient and powerful robots; slow and clunky(?) VMs; and learned to embrace the lightness of being a perpetual beginner.