Abhinav Asthana
Software architect, math enthusiast, and occasional doodler — building things at the intersection of clean systems, intelligent machines, and minimal aesthetics.
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Who I am
I'm a software architect and ML enthusiast who loves reasoning from first principles — whether that means tracing a bug down to a single errant pointer in C, or proving a convergence bound on a gradient-descent variant at 2 AM.
By day I architect web systems with Django, design APIs documented in Postman, and run them on Linux machines I've inevitably over-configured. By night I read papers on AI / ML, grind data structures problems, or fill a sketchbook with whatever my hand decides to draw.
When I step away from the screen, you'll find me outside — hanging from a bar working on calisthenics skills, or just sitting somewhere quiet watching nature do its thing.
Interests & Stack
Linux
Daily driver. Rices configs, writes shell scripts, reads man pages for fun.
Mathematics
Linear algebra, combinatorics, probability. Beauty in proofs.
AI / ML
Deep learning, gradient magic, and understanding what the model actually learned.
Data Structures
Trees, graphs, heaps — practitioner, not just theorist.
C Language
Pointers, manual memory, and a healthy respect for undefined behaviour.
Django
Batteries-included web framework. ORM lover, HTMX enjoyer.
Postman
API design, testing collections, and keeping contracts honest.
Doodling & Art
Sketchbooks, fine-liners, and the bliss of drawing with zero agenda.
Calisthenics
Bodyweight mastery. Working toward the planche, one rep at a time.
Nature
Long walks, open skies, and the kind of silence screens can't replicate.
Proficiency
Currently
Deep Learning — Goodfellow, Bengio & Courville
Chasing the math behind backprop and attention mechanisms.
This blog — Django + HTMX + Catppuccin
A minimal, Markdown-first writing space with no ads, no trackers.
Calisthenics — muscle-up → front lever progression
Three sessions a week. Slow, deliberate, consistent.
Systems programming in C — writing a small HTTP server
Because understanding the foundation makes everything else click.
Let's connect
Whether it's a paper you think I'd enjoy, a project idea, or just a well-reasoned argument about why tabs beat spaces — my inbox is open.
