I’m a lowly earthling, still doing the calculations to weed out the anomalies and create an equation that gives me my “42”. Other beings on this trivial planet call me Shantanu Goel or Shaan. For most of my life, I designed and developed embedded systems software at semiconductor companies (Qualcomm and Google), across operating systems, device drivers, human interface devices, security systems, and most recently AI accelerators. After a couple of decades of embedded systems, I took a jump over to the adtech world. After work, I like to make and break things around me ranging from my smart toaster/TV to my web and phone apps to my Car, strumming a bit of guitar, and 3d printing stuff, and then shitposting on twitter @shantanugoel.