About
Behind the lens
Hi, I'm Drishan; a software engineer who works across quantum computing, AI/ML systems, and the low-level layer that ties them together. I studied CS at CU Boulder through a master's with a numerical computing focus, where I helped build tooling for quantum experiments at NIST. I worked as an AI engineer at a small cybersecurity company after college. I'm currently a founding engineer at a Bay Area startup building deployment and orchestration software.
The constant is a pull toward problems where the abstraction is thin and the details decide everything: characterizing error on real hardware, retrieval that holds up at scale, signal code that has to hit a deadline. That same instinct runs off the clock, where I make experimental bass music and build generative visuals. The look of this site borrows from the engraved-almanac art of that scene: scientific plates, instrument diagrams, and a field humming at the edge of the page.
This site is a personal project and not affiliated with any of my employers.
What I work on
Quantum
Error characterization, simulation, and data-acquisition tooling for superconducting-qubit systems.
AI Systems
Retrieval pipelines, agent architectures, and the production plumbing that keeps them in check.
Sound & Signal
Experimental bass, real-time DSP, and generative visuals - Rust, WebGL, and a lot of late nights.
Toolkit
- Python
- TypeScript
- Julia
- Qiskit
- cuQuantum
- CUDA
- Rust
- Max/MSP
- Vertex AI
- LangGraph
- WebAssembly
- OpenGL
- Resolume
- Real-time DSP
TODO: Swap in DAW, synths, the works.
Currently
- Building deployment + orchestration software as an early engineer at a Bay Area startup.
- Exploring quantum error characterization on the GPU with cuQuantum.
- Making experimental bass musicand the occasional generative visual after hours.