Hi, I'm Jaskirat.

I'm building 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 climb big walls.

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Shipped at Fastly

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

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

Art & research, 2014–2016

StickieThesis research on interactive design for real-time mobile collaboration, using smartphones and large screen displays.Programmable Carbon FiberLarge-scale Programmable Carbon Fiber produced on a 4'x2' multi-material FDM.QuartzA modified Computer Numerical Control (CNC) router for fused deposition modelling using quartz glass.TerraAutonomous photogrammetry with drones to inspect high-voltage power transmission towers.TechnkisiInteractive kinetic sculpture created at Media Lab at Metropolitan Museum of Art.WearshopsWorkshop for finding creative garment applications through shape changing fabrics.Jamming Bodies 1.0An immersive installation that transforms the room into a pulsating laboratory, which can be tuned for stiffness, reconfigured on demand.OntogenesisExploration of relationship between form and growth through the lens of art and code.Cognitive FlowersInteracting with tangible objects through non-invasive brain controlled interface.

Notes & 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

Co-authored “Visualizing Urban Social-Ecological–Technological Systems” in Resilient Urban Futures, 2021
“Solving Problems with Puzzles”, MISC Magazine, 2017
“Shape Changing Materials: Exploring Applications of Smart Memory Alloy with Fabric and 3D Visualizations”, Research Gate, 2016
“Stickie: Mobile Device Supported Spatial Collaborations”, ACM Digital Library, 2016.

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