Become a sponsor to Rahul Ravikumar
Hi, I am Rahul and I am an engineer on the Android Toolkit team at Google. I've done a bunch of open source projects with support from Google including @openid/AppAuth-JS and @openid/OpenYOLO-Web. Both these projects try making Identity and Authentication easier.
Apart from shepherding these projects, I also have fun building self-driving RC cars and am one of the core-committers on donkeycar. This was originally a way for me to explore the world of Machine Learning and now I can't stop building cars.
Current projects
- Make donkeycar's training pipeline an order of magnitude faster and make it super easy to add more steps in the pipeline.
- I recently added
TensorRT
support to donkeycar. I plan to add an accelerometer for determiningthrottle
and use a transfer learnt based onResnet50
to dosteering
. Also my pre-processing steps will include an attempt at lane detection and obstacle detection. - Experiments with the new Azure Kinect DK to do more computer vision using Kotlin. Some of my previous work is here. I built
kotlin-native
stubs for the C SDK on Linux. - Experiments with Machine Learning do do generative text and images and blog about it. This will include my own take on Neural Style Transfer.
- Experiment with QMK firmware for the new keyboard I bought. This will be a forcing function for me to writing something using the
C
language which I have not done professionally in years. - Write more blog-posts on https://rahulrav.com/blog.
How sponsorship helps
This helps me make donkeycars go faster. This will also help be build a racetrack, build better cars and open source their designs. Apart from that, sponsorship also gives me the motivation to do better and share what little I know.
Featured work
-
tikurahul/donkey
self driving car
Python 12 -
openid/AppAuth-JS
JavaScript client SDK for communicating with OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect providers.
TypeScript 990 -
autorope/donkeycar
Open source hardware and software platform to build a small scale self driving car.
Python 3,188 -
tikurahul/rahulrav-com
A simple blogging engine.
HTML 4 -
tikurahul/kotlin-native-kinect
Using the Azure Kinect SDK with Kotlin Native
Kotlin 4
0% towards 5 monthly sponsors goal
Be the first to sponsor this goal!
$1 a month
Select🐶 — Thank you so much! For sponsoring me you'll receive:
A virtual hug :)
$5 a month
Select🐶 — Thank you so much! For sponsoring me you'll receive:
- A virtual hug
- Help maintain my open source projects
$10 a month
Select🐱 — Thank you so much! For sponsoring me you'll receive:
- All previous tiers
- Priority support on GitHub project issues
$25 a month
Select🐌 — Thank you so much! For sponsoring me you'll receive:
- All previous tiers
- Pictures and updates on new cars that I build and trip reports from races. Yes we race self driving RC cars !
$100 a month
Select🐬 — Thank you so much! For sponsoring me you'll receive:
- All previous tiers
- 1 on 1 support when trying to build your own self driving RC car via a video-chat or chat.
$500 a month
Select🐦 — Thank you so much! For sponsoring me you'll receive:
- All previous tiers
- My blog will have your logo as a sponsor. I usually get 10-20K page-views. Sometimes I also end up on the 1st page of HN.