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.
Modular lifestyle calculators built for public company employees. Stress-test your income, housing affordability, family wealth, and RSU equity strategy without overextending.
Goal: Establish your true liquid net pay in hand after maxing 401(k), HSA, & ESPP.
Goal: Stress-test monthly rent, homeownership PITI, and major commitments against net pay.
Goal: Project 18-year compounding growth for 529, UTMA, & Roth Rollovers.
Goal: Simulate vesting schedules, compare holding vs S&P 500, & play regret game.
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.