Karmanyaah Malhotra

Experience

OnBoard Ambassador June 2023 - Present

Hack Club

Reviewed $100 PCB grant applications for teens
Guided many students through their first PCB design and manufacturing process; provided support, ideas, and verification to advanced students.

Network Admin/Teaching Assistant Aug 2022 - May 2023

Belton High School

Set up 15 Cisco switches and routers; Used VMWare to run Debian, Docker, and applications.
Developed a WebSocket-based WireGuard VPN-wrapper in Golang to improve accessibility of resources beyond my school's firewall
Trained 9th graders with IT skills like rack mounting, making Ethernet cables, SSH, RDP, AD.

Team Lead 2022-23

Vex Robotics Competition High School

Architected a complex C++ program for coordinating subsystems in a real-time operating system
Analyzed camera inputs, gyroscopes, motor encoders, distance, and color sensors to extract useful information; Implemented autonomy algorithms to correct robot behavior.
Guided younger students with no previous robotics experience to be competition-ready through coding and mechanism design practice

Longhorn LED Level PCB Summer 2023

Designed an ATmega328P-based, Arduino-compatible dev board, with inputs (accelerometer), outputs (Addressable LEDs), Li-ion charging, USB
Details and video: k.malhotra.cc/projects/2023/09/sparkletilt/
Skills: KiCAD, PCB Design, Sensors, Arduino, C++, manufacturing cost optimization

Hot Dog - A Programmable Flamethrower July 2023

Hack Club Outernet Hackathon

Rapidly prototyped and developed a pyrotechnic toy in 42 hours from ideation to demo
Collaborated with a team of 5 under time pressure to test various fuel dispensing mechanisms, user inputs, ignition, controls, and backup plans
Built and coded a safe, Arduino-controlled, battery powered, motor driver and HVAC source
Videos and further information: k.malhotra.cc/projects/2023/09/hotdog/

Discord - GroupMe Chat bridge December 2020

Syncs messages between various data sources while appearing native to the platform
Reliably operating for over 2 years on a Debian server with no maintenance
github.com/karmanyaahm/groupme_discord_bridge_v3
Skills: API interaction, Golang, data processing

Familiar with: Javascript, React, NodeJS, npm, TypeScript, Python, Java, C++, Dart, Flutter