Heyo!

My name is Kershan Arulneswaran.

I'm the guy who intentionally breaks low- and high-level shit, because I'd rather find out exactly how something fails before the real world does it for me.

I'm the guy who can jump from embedded systems and real-time software to computer vision, robotics, AI, and larger software systems without pretending those layers exist in separate universes.

I'm the guy who likes software most when it deals with actual hardware. This includes hardware constraints, and all the weird shit that happens when reality doesn't care what the documentation promised.

I'm the guy who treats debugging like engineering. This means that I reproduce the failure, isolate it, push it until something gives, figure out what assumptions were right and what assumptions were bullshit, and make sure the next version is harder to kill.

I'm the guy who genuinely loves AI and machine learning, but hates AI slop. If the entire pitch is "we added AI", then I probably don't give a shit unless it actually makes the product smarter, faster, safer, more useful, or more interesting.

I'm the guy who still builds things because they're fun, whether that's experimenting with computer vision and AI, getting agents to play games for me, or spending an unreasonable amount of time making a boring solution way cooler than it needs to be.

I'm the guy who loves robotics and engineering as much as I love games, cinema, motorsports, basketball, martial arts, and figuring out how the hell people built the systems, experiences, and stories behind them.

I'm also the guy who loves the people side of this too. Let me tell you something. I love coffee chats, job events, hackathons, random conversations, swapping ideas, and hearing how people got where they are. Sometimes it's just a good conversation, and sometimes it turns into a friendship, a collaboration, or a connection that ends up meaning much, much more.

I'm the guy who wants to work on difficult systems, ambitious projects, and the kind of engineering problems where "good enough" eventually comes back to bite you.

I'm the guy who cares a lot more about whether something actually works than whether it looks impressive in a demo.

Oh, and I'm the guy who actually reads cold emails, so if you're building something difficult, weird, ambitious, slightly ridiculous, or just genuinely cool, send me one.