Writing & Essays
Engineering deep-dives, GSoC 2026 notes, candid personal essays on athletics and resilience, and my early science writings archived from school days.
- Sep 5, 2026·4 min read·GSoC 2026
Platform Integrations: Upstream Engineering, Lanczos Resampling, and the Gritty Realities of Open Source
The unglamorous, critical work of upstream engineering: fixing Lanczos image resampling in Eventyay core, EXIF rotation handling, Eventyay Business subscription quotas, and repairing Star-Me automation.
- Jul 27, 2026·3 min read·Personal Reflections
After Paris: Time Together in Germany
Open source in person, sightseeing at the Reichstag, Lime rides, lake swims, plenty of döner kebabs: our time together in Germany after Paris.
- Jul 21, 2026·2 min read·Personal Reflections
Paris: Wikimania, Conversations, and Exploring Together
Time together in Paris: Wikimania at UNESCO, conversations with the team, pizza by the Seine, and visits to the Louvre and Versailles before heading to Germany.
- May 25, 2026·4 min read·GSoC 2026
Coding Begins: Week 01 in the Weeds with WebRTC, WHIP, and MediaMTX
Week 01 of active implementation: moving from architectural diagrams to raw SDP handshakes, ICE gathering, and debugging cross-browser WebRTC quirks.
- May 1, 2026·4 min read·GSoC 2026
Community Bonding: The Architectural Epiphany of Keeping Python Out of Live Audio
Mapping VoxBento end to end and establishing the golden rule of real-time audio systems: never let the Python runtime touch the live streaming audio path.
- Mar 3, 2026·4 min read·GSoC 2026
FOSSASIA Summit 2026: Bangkok, Street Food, and the Spark for VoxBento
Landing in Bangkok, hacking late into the night with Vedansh and Srivatsav, meeting Mitch Altman, and witnessing firsthand the acute language barrier that sparked the idea for VoxBento.
- Apr 18, 2025·6 min read·Personal Reflections
Hero’s Journey: The Necessary Darkness, Basketball, and Rebuilding
This essay is not an academic exercise. It is an attempt to sit with myself honestly and put down something I have been carrying for a while: the weight of unfinished things, and the refusal to let setbacks be a final verdict.
- Aug 27, 2022·4 min read·School Days & Science·School Days on Blogger
Zooming to the Stars: Unleashing the Power of Antimatter in Space Travel
An essay written during school exploring matter-antimatter annihilation, relativistic specific impulse, beam-core engine architectures, and the physics limits of interstellar travel.
- May 15, 2022·3 min read·School Days & Science·School Days on Blogger
Beyond the Stars: Space Exploration, Satellites, and the Chandrayaan Spark
Reflections from school on how watching the Chandrayaan-2 launch ignited my obsession with ISRO, satellite orbital mechanics, and space robotics.
- Jan 14, 2022·4 min read·School Days & Science·School Days on Blogger
Unveiling the Enigmatic Wormholes: Bridges Across Universes
An exploration of Einstein–Rosen bridges, general relativity, the Morris–Thorne traversable wormhole solution, and the fascinating ER=EPR conjecture.
- Jun 18, 2021·4 min read·School Days & Science·School Days on Blogger
Atomic Awakenings: The Physics, History, and Peril of the Nuclear Age
A comprehensive school study of nuclear fission physics, critical mass, the Manhattan Project, and the dual nature of atomic science.
- May 9, 2021·4 min read·School Days & Reflections·School Days on Blogger
Me In Next Five Years? (Written in 10th Grade, and How It Came True)
In May 2021 as a 10th grader, I sat down and wrote about my dream of working with ISRO, inspired by Chandrayaan-2 and Michio Kaku. Four years later, our college team took AIR 3 in the ISRO IROC robotics challenge.
- Jul 25, 2020·4 min read·School Days & Science·School Days on Blogger
Dark Science & Matter: History, Creation, and the Invisible Cosmos
My very first blog post from July 2020: compiling research on ancient element theories, Fritz Zwicky, Vera Rubin, and the missing 85% of cosmic matter.