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Interests

👞Hiking

🚴🏾‍♂️Cycling

Languages

Rust Python C++ PHP Tex ****Typescript JavaScript Java Lua

Skills

Peopleware Software System Design Tech Hiring APIs Algorithms

Web: Vue3 React CodeIgniter4 Laravel HTMX

System: Kernel Win32 API IPC Linux Programming Hardware design

Misc Parser Network Flows Model Checking Testing Debugging Python bindings Stochastic DSA Data Visualization

A software nerd who speaks Rust, C++, Python, JS/TS, and PHP fluently. I write systems and applications, highly performant data APIs, and numerical simulators. I have developed a very diverse set of skills from working at deep-tech startups and world-class academic labs. I also excel at peopleware: can easily build and lead excellent technical teams.

Slightly workaholic, colorblind, suck at UI design and doesn’t test well in live interviews.

Work Experience

Dognosis | Senior Engineer | Jan 2025 — current

• Setup development workflows for small efficient teams, and helping founders with project roadmaps,
• Built hiring process and increase the team size by 7 in five months
• Built an experimental arena that consumes live stream of videos, audio, IoT sensor streams (Rust, PHP8) generated by free moving dogs wearing hardware kit and deployed a distributed computational engine (Python/C++) that runs online data to decision pipeline on live data

Subconscious Compute | Co-Founder & CTO | Dec 2020 – Dec 2024

• Cofounded a cyber-security company specializing in endpoint security and took it to pre-series A
• Hired and managed a team of 15+ developers to automate defense for IoT/edge devices and built a cross-platform agent and a platform to remotely manage and secure endpoint devices with minimal connectivity
• I designed and wrote some core components like kernel minifilters (Win32, C++) and eBPF based probes to gain real-time observability into runtime behaviors of devices
• Implemented strategies for online threat detection and to optimize performance on a limited silicon budget

Google Summer of Code | Mentor | 2015 — 2017

• For three years, I mentored in GSoC for MOOSE Simulator at INCF where I oversaw GPU based acceleration of solvers

KritiKal Solutions | Firmware Engineer | Dec 2009 — July 2010

• Wrote Kalman filter (C++, Multi RTOS) based algorithm to remove artifacts generated by vibrations from movie cameras

Projects

• https://www.ncbs.res.in/hippo/ automatically and “optimally” schedule annual thesis seminars, manages meeting rooms and institute public calendar saving thousands of trips and emails (PHP, Vue3, Cordova)
• **MOOSE Neural Simulator** I wrote and optimize custom ODE solvers use GNU GSL and Boost libraries to improve the speed and accuracy of numerical methods and added Python binding to improve its adoption by scientific community
• Smoldyn Simulator I wrote Python binding to improve ease of use
• https://github.com/dilawar/PlotDigitizerlets you extract data from old digital plots in batch mode, such as EEG plots
• https://github.com/dilawar/snifferlets you detect plagiarism/copying in codes submitted
• https://github.com/dilawar/SerialScopeis a poor-man oscilloscope for it turns a cheap Arduino board to a simple oscilloscope
• https://github.com/SubconsciousCompute/SimpleAccumulatoris a crate inspired by boost::accumulator library and is useful to do online statistics on streams of data

Education

• PhD, Computational Neuroscience NCBS Bangalore 2015 – 2019
• PhD, (withdrawn), Digital Systems IIT Bombay 2011 – 2013
• M. Tech., Electrical Engineering IIT Bombay 2007 – 2009
• B. Tech., Electrical Engineering Dr. MGR ERI Chennai 2003 – 2007