About

Student, programmer, hacker — in that order, depending on the day.

I’m Debarshi Kundu, a computer engineering Master’s student at the University of Texas at San Antonio. I earned a B.S.A. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 2022. I build software, take systems apart, and write down what I learn along the way.

My GitHub bio says it better than a résumé: “Just another kid trying to create new things.” That hasn’t changed since I made the account in 2014.

What I actually do

  • Build things. Desktop tools in C#, iOS apps in Swift, data pipelines in Python, backends in Java. The language changes; the goal doesn’t.
  • Break things, carefully. I spend time on CTF challenges and lab machines — web exploitation and reverse engineering, mostly — and I publish writeups only for retired or explicitly authorised targets.
  • Explain things. A project isn’t finished until I can explain why it works. That’s most of what this site is for.

How I work

I care more about understanding a problem than about looking productive. I’d rather ship a small tool that does one thing correctly than a large one held together by assumptions. When something fails, I want the failure to be loud and specific.

I’m also autistic, which I’ve stopped treating as a footnote. It shapes how I focus, how deeply I go on a single problem, and why I like systems that behave predictably. The name The Autistic Tech Boy is mine — an honest label, not a limitation.

Beyond the keyboard

When I’m not in a terminal, I’m usually reading about how something works, collecting far too many unfinished side projects, or explaining a technical idea to someone who didn’t ask.

Let’s talk

I’m open to internships, collaborations, and any problem that’s more interesting than it first appears.