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Suriya

Hi! 👋

I’m Suriya (pronounced Soo-r-ya)

I’m an Engineer, who loves to write. Suffice to say, I write here when I’m trying to think through something or when I’ve solved something.

I’m currently doing my Masters in Privacy Engineering at CMU, and my research is on the intersection between Machine Learning, Privacy and Systems Software.

I Love reading and experimenting with Distributed and embedded systems.

I enjoy meeting new people. So definitely send a shout-out to me at, hi at suriya.cc. 🙂

📚 books that I’ve read/reading

🚪 Privacy Things

🧑🏻‍🏫 Readlog

🛍 ToDo

📜 essays

You can find the table of contents here

Recent Posts

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,   Nov 15 2024

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light....click to read


The Practice,   Nov 6 2024

Shipping, because it doesn’t count if you don’t share it. Creative, because you’re not a cog in a system...click to read


Writing,   Nov 5 2024

I write a lot. and I forget a lot. Taking a lot of notes is part of how I stay sane and get even part of the things that I want to get done....click to read


Newsletters and blogs that are interesting,   Oct 16 2024

Pg’s Essays Incredibly interesting if you are into the startup world and are generally curious about how the world operates. I highly recommend The Submarine and The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius Joel Spolsky’s blog Joel’s Essays are super good....click to read


Organizational Wisdom,   Oct 16 2024

What started with Nabeel Qureshi’s Reflections on Palantir led me into an incredibly deep and rich rabbit hole of companies, intensity, operating them and, a whole host of new (to me) industry operators within the palantir circles such as, Tyler Cowen, Shyam Sankar, etc....click to read


Awesome incubators/collectives for startups,   Oct 15 2024

Socratics website: https://socratica.info twitter: https://x.com/socraticainfo Open collective for builders, present in Multiple cities in the US and Canada. Really cool demos from their hackathon...click to read


Photogrammetry/VideoGrammetry or the dark art of capturing 2d and generating 3d models,   Oct 11 2024

Capturing Questions: Is it possible to go from, photo/video to high fidelity 3d model, with strong support for texture, without losing a lot of details on noise?...click to read


Leaky Abstractions, or How we Understand the world,   Oct 2 2024

Languages are a lossy communication framework. You meant one thing, but your friend understood something else. The same words don’t mean the same thing even a few hundred miles apart, etc....click to read


Atlanta,   Sep 6 2024

Atlanta is what happens if you put too many white collars in the same space. Downtown was very immaculate and the roads were slick, not to mention wide....click to read


Postmortem from building an AI speech coach,   Sep 1 2024

The problem International Students have a hard time understanding and integrating with the culture. This is true even if there’s a good grasp of the language....click to read


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