Husain Haider Zaidi

Software Engineer 2 @microsoft

Blog

  1. How to GPIO with Jetson Orin Nano

    February 14, 2026

    I have been playing with my Jetson Orin Nano Super, trying to make it do things. It was touted as the Raspberry Pi for the AI age. What…

  2. Drudgery is anti-human

    October 20, 2025

    This is a polemic against an already disliked adjective. No one likes repetitive mundane toil. Drudgery is evil Then why write this piece…

  3. Training a dumb simple R1-like LLM

    January 29, 2025

    Deepseek R1 has shown how Reinforcement Learning with simple rewards are enough achieve SOTA on benchmarks. The simplicity inspired me to…

  4. Sci Fi stories don't seem that distant anymore

    July 31, 2024

    I have been consuming a series of really good sci-fi media since the start of 2024 which got me imagining and evaluating near-future…

  5. LLMs with Facts and Truth

    February 27, 2023

    LLMs like ChatGPT are built to generate words using their billions of weights trained over a significant portion of the crawled internet…

  6. 2021 as a builder

    January 03, 2022

    So much for my 2021 resolution. I want to take a moment to reflect and list out all of the products I made since the pandemic started and in…

  7. How YouTube and I built the same thing

    April 23, 2021

    My new year resolution was to make a project that achieves some sort of product-market-fit. I did some prospecting (just like the old days…

  8. Hugging Face and VLMs

    July 31, 1984

    ( Write my notes about finetuning using hugging face transformers)

Work

  1. LIP-Loc: LiDAR Image Pretraining for Cross-Modal Localization

    We apply CLIP-like contrastive symmetric loss using batch construction technique to the domains of 2D image and 3D LiDAR points on the task of cross-modal localization. WACV 2024 Workshop on Large Language and Vision Models for Autonomous Driving
    Training using Pytorch,
    Github Link

  2. Nano GPT

    Implemented a Decoder-only Transformer (GPT) from scratch using PyTorch. Followed @karpathy’s video lecture
    Github Link

  3. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

    Trained a deep reinforcement agent to control an AUV. Used the Proximal Policy Optimization algorithm for learning. Agent can orient and reach a small red buoy successfully. Simulated and trained the model in Unity Game Engine. Major Project of Bachelors degree
    Simulation and training using Unity3D ml-agents

    Github link

  4. Camera Tuning AI trained using Deep Reinforcement learning

    Trained a deep reinforcement agent to tune the white- balance setting of an Android Camera. The agent attempts to replicate a manually adjusted photo. Captured photos are sent to the PC for training and inference. Minor Project for Bachelors degree.
    Training using Keras, image sent over sockets

  5. Augmented Reality Events App

    Designed a system for rendering AR elements on stages for concerts and festivals. Won first place of the Hackathon with prizes worth ₹ 15,000. Was team lead
    Tech Stack: Unity, ARCore
    Github link

  6. Ludum jam 46, La Revolution

    Made a game in 3 days which features a gun to make people join the revolution. Made in a top down style. Play here

  7. Shopify Extension to Measure Clothes measurement

    Uses tensorflow.js to approximate body measurements using the webcam. Can be used as an iframe in a shopify store. Currently unsupported Check it out here

About

Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft. Working for the Project Manager Agent in Teams. Built LLM orchestration for executing Tasks from Teams.Led the Data Engineering crew for Planner. Improved pipelines that process PBs of User logs using spark for Business metrics. Built REST APIs, messaging systems to enhance shared task lists across distributed instances, using ASP.NET.

Building home robotics using ROS, Jetson Nano, and custom PCBs. Trying to SLAM using just stero cameras.

Was a hobbyist Game developer, huge fan of single player experiences. Experienced in Unity3D. Dabbled in Artificial neural networks and Deep Reinforcement Learning in Unity. Used Pytorch, Unity ml-agents.

Made Augmented Reality apps using ArCore in Unity. Deeply intereseted in Mixed Reality, bullish on its ability to replace the smartphone.

Resume PDF

Bullish and interested in projects on

  • Learning-based approaches for automation. Robotics for home
  • Shared mirror worlds: A Information rich, virtual simiulation of the world. 3D Gaussian splats and Maps.
  • Creator Economy, power to the masses!
  • Metaverse interactions, tackling real-time synchronous internet

Books:

  • Profiles of the Future
  • Creative selection
  • The Dream Machine
  • Dune
  • Inside the Googleplex
  • The Things We Make
  • Competing Against Luck

    • Games:

  • Half Life
  • Undertale
  • Red Dead Redemption 2
  • Doom
  • Deathloop
  • Cyberpunk 2077
  • No Man's Sky
  • Age of Empires IV

    • Media

    • Three body problem
    • Better Call Saul
    • Attack On Titan
    • Parasite
    • Dwarkesh Patel
    • ...

    My Current Desk!

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