Hi, I'm

Jaskirat
Randhawa.

I'm building observability and developer platforms at Fastly.

Past lives include making art, engineering electronics, 3D-printing glass, and co-founding a climate tech startup. Off the clock, I love spending my time climbing rocks.

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Shipped at Fastly

2023–2026

2026New Fastly Terraform ProviderA ground-up rebuild of how customers manage Fastly as code, designed in the open with them.Clearer Compute errorsTurning a recurring customer complaint into errors that tell developers what broke and why.Fastly Agent ToolkitSpinning up AI coding assistants fluent in Fastly.2025Fastly DashboardsOut-of-the-box monitoring and alerting.Fastly MCP ServerRunning Fastly using LLMs.2023Go on Fastly ComputeAdvancing the Compute SDKs, starting with full Go support.
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Recent writing

All posts
2026A self-hosted e-ink dashboard for my PM context fatigueMay 16 · 4 min readPart 3 of 3: The 11pm-in-an-airport testMay 4 · 4 min readPart 2 of 3: The patchwork I'd been calling a homelabApr 25 · 5 min read

Previous life

Art & research, 2014–2016

2016StickieMFA Design & Technology Thesis, ParsonsWearshopsCo-teacher2015TerraDesign & TechnologyJamming Bodies 1.0Visiting Researcher, MIT Self-Assembly LabQuartzTechnical LeadProgrammable Carbon FiberVisiting Researcher, MIT Self-Assembly LabOntogenesisCreative Code2014Cognitive FlowersDesign & TechnologyTechnkisiVisiting Artist, The Met Media Lab

Elsewhere

Talks, publications & mentions

Exhibitions & Talks

  • Hosted Data-Visualization Workshop, Modelling Complex Urban Environments, WICI, Ontario, 2018
  • Speaker at URExSRN Annual All Hands Meeting, Phoenix, 2018
  • Speaker, Data-Visualization Seminar at “Resilient Cities, Livable Futures,” The New School, New York, 2017
  • Exhibited at ACM User Interface Software Technology Conference (UIST), Tokyo, 2016
  • Exhibited at ACM Spatial User Interfaces Conference (SUI), Tokyo, 2016
  • Exhibited at FabCafe/Loftwork for YouFab Awards, Tokyo, 2016
  • Speaker at NYC Media Lab Annual Summit, New York, 2016
  • Exhibited at Metropolitan Museum of Art, Media Lab Expo, New York, 2015
  • Exhibited at Storefront Gallery for Art & Architecture, New York, 2015

Publications

Awards

  • Verizon Spotlight Award for performance excellence, 2019
  • Three Verizon Patent Awards, 2018–2022
  • Finalist, YouFab Global Creative Awards, Tokyo, 2016
  • Verizon Connected Futures Grant, 2015–16
  • Departmental Honors, AMT, Parsons School of Design, 2016
  • The New Challenge Award for social innovation, The New School, 2016
  • NYC Media Lab Combine Grant, 2015
  • Dean’s Merit Scholarship for MFA in Design & Technology, The New School, 2014

Patents

  • Systems and Methods for Recommending Linear TV Content. US 10986408 · Issued Apr 20, 2021
  • System and Method of Retrieving and Conveying Sensitive Information When Using Voice Command Devices. US 10733278 · Issued Aug 4, 2020
  • Methods and Systems for Virtualizing a Target Object Within a Mixed Reality Presentation. US 10380803 · Issued Aug 13, 2019