# Jaskirat Randhawa

> Senior Product Manager at Fastly, managing developer platforms for edge compute. Previously co-founded a climate tech company and built machines that 3D print glass.

## Blog Posts

- [A self-hosted e-ink dashboard for my PM context fatigue](https://jaskirat.org/blog/trmnl-byos/): PM work means juggling many technical contexts a day. I needed a list that stayed visible without becoming a second monitor. Here's what I built and what changed.
- [Part 3 of 3: The 11pm-in-an-airport test](https://jaskirat.org/blog/homelab-airport-test/): Making my home services feel like real websites, regardless of device or network. Why route -n get default lies, and a reverse-proxy lesson that travels. Part 3 of 3.
- [Part 2 of 3: The patchwork I'd been calling a homelab](https://jaskirat.org/blog/homelab-patchwork/): What it took to stop being the patch pipeline for my own NAS, and the AdGuard scare that finally made it urgent. Part 2 of 3.
- [Part 1 of 3: A fanless NAS, a windowsill, and one user](https://jaskirat.org/blog/homelab-fanless-qnap/): How a music collection, an ad blocker, and an itch to tinker led me to build a small, dependable, single-user homelab. Part 1 of a 3-part series.
- [ClimaSens: What Wearing Every Hat Actually Taught Me](https://jaskirat.org/blog/climasens/): Co-founding a climate intelligence platform, building the full stack, falling in love with maps, and learning when to stop engineering and start shipping.
- [Urban Systems Lab: Where I Fell in Love with Maps](https://jaskirat.org/blog/urban-systems-lab/): My foray into geospatial data at NYU, building a mapping platform that spun out tools for climate resilience research across ten cities.
- [Verizon: Conversational AI Before the GenAI Wave](https://jaskirat.org/blog/verizon/): Building chatbot experiences for 150M+ customers, developing real customer empathy at scale, and positioning for an AI shift we could see coming.

## Projects

- [Cognitive Flowers](https://jaskirat.org/projects/cognitive-flowers/): Interacting with tangible objects through non-invasive brain controlled interface.
- [Ontogenesis](https://jaskirat.org/projects/ontogenesis/): Exploration of relationship between form and growth through the lens of art and code.
- [Jamming Bodies 1.0](https://jaskirat.org/projects/jamming-bodies/): An immersive installation that transforms the room into a pulsating laboratory, which can be tuned for stiffness, reconfigured on demand.
- [Wearshops](https://jaskirat.org/projects/wearshops/): Workshop for finding creative garment applications through shape changing fabrics.
- [Technkisi](https://jaskirat.org/projects/technkisi/): Interactive kinetic sculpture created at Media Lab at Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [Terra](https://jaskirat.org/projects/terra/): Autonomous photogrammetry with drones to inspect high-voltage power transmission towers.
- [Quartz](https://jaskirat.org/projects/quartz/): A modified Computer Numerical Control (CNC) router for fused deposition modelling using quartz glass.
- [Programmable Carbon Fiber](https://jaskirat.org/projects/programmable-carbon-fiber/): Large-scale Programmable Carbon Fiber produced on a 4'x2' multi-material FDM.
- [Stickie](https://jaskirat.org/projects/stickie/): Thesis research on interactive design for real-time mobile collaboration, using smartphones and large screen displays.

## Notes & Mentions

Patents: 3 US patents in TV content recommendation, voice command privacy, and mixed reality (2019–2021).
Publications: 4 works including ACM, MISC Magazine, and Research Gate (2016–2021).
Exhibitions: 9 talks and exhibitions at ACM UIST, Met Museum, NYC Media Lab, and more (2015–2018).
Awards: Verizon Spotlight Award, YouFab finalist, Dean's Merit Scholarship, and others (2014–2022).

## Links

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaskiratr/)
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