Naman Kumar

Naman Kumar

I’m Naman. I live in New Delhi but spend as much time as I can in the Himalayas. I am a software engineer and build AI products with teams around the world.

Outside work, I like to stay in motion. I am usually training for a race, planning a trek, or finding new adventure sports to try. I am probably following a new curiosity down another rabbit hole.

This is where I keep what is worth remembering.

  • See what I am onto right now.
  • Read my writings about software, travel, and life outside both.
  • Explore the races I have run and the goals I am still chasing.
  • Browse links I have found thoughtful, useful, or worth returning to.
  • Take a look at the stuff I use, recommend, and genuinely enjoy.

For the ten-minute version of me, visit about me.

+ WRITINGS +

  1. Road to Kibber
  2. Before Boots Hit the Trail
  3. On Weak Men
  4. The Agent Ran for 13 Hours
  5. Quantizing DistilBERT
  6. Token Compression
  7. How to Build an Agent
  8. On Database Indexing
  9. Introducing naman.md

+ RECENT RUNS +

21.097 kmTuffman Shimla Ultra & Half Marathon Mashobra 202698.292 km across four racesProcam Slam 2025–202610 kmTCS World 10K Bengaluru 2026

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+ NOW +

At home in New Delhi, the pegboard beside my desk holds the small objects that make the space feel like mine. Among them is a 64 × 64 iDotMatrix display, connected to /pixel through an ESP32.

I spent today rewriting that connection and moving its storage to a public Git repository. The playground lets anyone post a drawing or leave me a note. It joins the latest submissions rotating on the display, so something made there will appear beside my desk at home.

Everything is deployed and finally looks fun. It has been quite an interesting project, and I am happy to share it with folks tomorrow.

My Pixel display on the pegboard beside my desk

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