Hi! Welcome to my corner of the internet. I value thoughtful disagreements and am always curious to see things from other perspectives. I enjoy playing the guitar, hitting the badminton court, and being close to nature, especially by the ocean. I thrive at the bleeding edge and relish discussing tech and startups. Also fascinated by the cosmos.

Currently, I am:

• Studying computer engineering at Waterloo
• Noodling around to build my ASIC designs and learn more about the chip design flow

Before that I have,

• Performed IP-level RTL verification and wrote firmware to streamline emulation & hw/sw simulation of a RISC-V core on an FPGA + enhanced in-house EDA Automation workflows @Low Power Futures
• Built StepOne, a platform to help with idea validation and customer discovery enabling founders/PMs to gain actionable feedback and market insights — More here
• Designed an I-BERT LLM in hardware: 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
• Led the development of an automated manufacturing line prototype for $1M+ medical device production initiative - @ATS Life Sciences
• Developed backend features and integrations for a creator marketing platform; optimized Docker images for production builds and streamlined testing CI/CD pipeline - @Intrepid Financial Technologies

If you have thoughts on anything I’ve written, or otherwise want to contact me, feel free to email me at arpitarunkumaar@gmail.com