About

The goal is simple: record, understand, and simulate the natural world.

Simulation & Graphics: Building mathematical models of our physical world. From path tracing to physically based simulation, the true joy lies in the complete engineering cycle—designing elegant algorithms, writing the software, and optimizing performance to the metal.
Photography: Documenting the outdoors while indulging technical curiosity. It’s a constant mechanical challenge to push consumer-budget camera gear to its absolute limits and capture breathtaking phenomena.
Expeditions: Thriving on the physical demands of hiking and cycling, always seeking the reward of a stunning view.

Current

Master’s Thesis Student at the McGill School of Computer Science, supervised by Prof. Paul Kry.
Research Intern at Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, focusing on distributed physics simulation.

Previous

Data Scientist at Infinite Uptime. I built the software stack for industrial IoT sensor devices used to predict machine health. I worked across the entire pipeline—from embedded C++ firmware, to a Java streaming analytics architecture handling 8,000+ devices, to Python ML algorithms. This work resulted in two published patent applications.
Associate Full Stack Software Engineer at NICE Ltd.
Contributor to the acclaimed book series, Ray Tracing in One Weekend.

I am always eager to embark on challenging expeditions to document nature. If you share this passion, feel free to get in touch!

Manas Kale