I'm a third-year Computer Engineering student at Cal Poly SLO. I picked this major because I wanted to understand both sides of the board: what the hardware is actually doing, and how software makes it useful. Most of what I build ends up somewhere near that boundary.
Lately that has meant RISC-V processors, FPGAs, analog front ends, and low-level C. My favorite part of the work is the moment you have a theory about why something is broken and the waveform or the scope tells you whether you were right.
- virtual-world-pathfinding: A* search and an entity hierarchy driving agents around a Java grid world.
- cpe333-otter-riscv-pipeline: a 5-stage pipelined RV32I processor in SystemVerilog, with the hazard handling and the debugging notes from getting forwarding, stalls, and branch flushing to agree.
- c-systems-projects: BMP image
processing by hand, parallelism with
forkandmmap, and POSIX shared-memory IPC. - fpga-parking-lot-controller: a passcode FSM, gate control, and seven-segment driver for the DE1-SoC.
- fsk-ir-receiver: an infrared receiver front end that recovers frequency-shift-keyed data, designed and tuned in LTspice.
A few older repositories are still here. They are early learning work and I have left them that way on purpose; the progression seems more honest than a tidy highlight reel.
I'm a Resident Advisor, which has taught me more about staying calm and communicating clearly than any lecture has. I also started detailing cars in high school and grew it into a small repeat-client business that I still run; pricing your own time and getting the job right the first time turned out to be their own kind of engineering problem.
I spend time with Cal Poly Racing and the Computer Engineering Society, and I'm minoring in Ethics, Public Policy, Science, and Technology because I think asking who a technology serves matters as much as asking whether it can be built. Outside of all that I like to travel and say yes to things that push me past my comfort zone.
- Portfolio: hiteshwired.github.io/PortfolioWebsite
- Email: hiteshnandakumar@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/hnan06