I’m a Computer Engineering student at the University of Waterloo, passionate about hardware and product development. I thrive on working at the bleeding edge of technology and relish talking about tech and startups.

I welcome thoughtful disagreements and am always curious to see things from other perspectives. Outside of work, I enjoy playing guitar, hitting the badminton court, and being close to nature, especially by the ocean. There’s something about the sound of waves that makes me feel at peace. Also fascinated by sci-fi, philosophy, and space.

Currently, I am:

• Building a high-performance ALU for a GPU - transistor level layout & RTL design

Before that I have,

• Performed IP-level functional verification and resolved RTL flaws in design + Enhanced EDA automation workflows with additional functionality & tool integrations, reducing time-to-eval for future acquisitions - @Low Power Futures
• Built StepOne, a platform to help with idea validation and customer discovery powered by a multi-agentic system that simulates realistic interviews with a diverse set of personas to choose from, enabling founders to gain actionable feedback and market insights — More here
• Designed an I-BERT LLM in hardware — implemented from scratch: right from the basic arithmetic blocks such as multiply-accumulate modules to the transformer primitives units (Softmax, LayerNorm) in SystemVerilog, to run tokens natively on an FPGA. View writeup here
• Implemented a UART RX/TX core in Verilog, verified with testbenches, and deployed on an Altera FPGA for reliable serial communication — More here
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to lead the development of an automated manufacturing line prototype for a multimillion-dollar medical device production initiative - @ATS Life Sciences
• Developed backend features and integrations for Superstar, a creator marketing platform; optimized Docker images for production builds and updated + streamlined test backlog in CI/CD pipeline to ensure reliable automated code validation - @Intrepid Financial Technologies

Feel free to reach out at arpitarunkumaar@gmail.com