Hi, I'm Karthik Balasubramanian — a Software Engineer at Adobe specializing in Site Reliability, Systems Architecture, and ML Infrastructure. Driven by solving core business challenges, I bridge high-level strategy with deep technical execution — partnering with research and engineering teams to transform experimental concepts and machine learning systems into production-ready platforms. In my free time, I build tools to solve lingering problems I encounter in day-to-day life and make them useful for others. I do not collect, store, or use your data for any purpose.
A guided 3-phase financial journey designed to protect your quality of life. Make life-first decisions without overextending on housing or sacrificing your family's future.
Goal: First, decide what liquid net pay you want in hand after maxing 401(k), HSA, & ESPP.
Goal: Stress-test major assets (Homes, 2nd Homes, Luxury Cars, Yachts) against your lifestyle budget.
Goal: Finally, project 18-year growth for your child's 529, UTMA, and Trump account.
Deep dives into ML systems, engineering architecture, and first-principles math.
From flashlight shadows to multi-dimensional Transformer attention: an intuitive, first-principles deep dive into dot products, matrix operations, and why self-attention works the way it does.
An exploration of FLOPs, memory bandwidth, MFU across GPT-2 to Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and how long-horizon autonomous agents will unlock maximum GPU throughput.