From the chessboard to the cosmos — same constraint, different stakes.
I build systems where the output has to be provable — not probable. Different domains, same constraint: if it can't survive on 8GB of RAM and a deterministic guarantee, it doesn't ship.
Professional Experience
Pyre Engine (WoC 5.0)
Open Source Contributor — Engine Tooling & Core Systems
Winter 2025–2026
- ■Built a complete ImGui-based Visual Editor with Scene Hierarchy, Component Inspector, and Material Controls for real-time property editing.
- ■Engineered a robust Scene Serialization backend using nlohmann::json for hierarchical ECS state persistence and smart deserialization.
- ■Overhauled the ResourceManager with fallback textures and graceful error degradation to eliminate asset-loading crashes.
- ■Modernized the Camera system with dynamic state capture, smart reset, and toggle-mode input for improved developer workflow.
- ■Shipped PR #32 and PR #33 during Winter of Code 5.0. Read Official Technical Report ↗
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Chess Initiative — North East India
Founder & Sports Leadership
2023 – 2025
- ■District-level U17 Chess Champion. Zero losses across college sports week.
- ■Organized tournaments and structured training for competitive play.
- ■Peak 1815 Blitz (Lichess, ~1000 games). 2000+ Rapid.
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Hackathons & Game Jams
Protocol Architect & Participant
2024 – 2025
- ■Won Hackspace 2025 (Blockchain Track) with SENTRY — a deterministic verification engine for smart contract exploits.
- ■Systems Lead for Team N-Body at DU Hacks 5.0 — built Exo-Checkmate.
- ■Developed a mechanical gameplay loop within 48 hours during a Game Jam.
Research & Papers
Flagship Research
RTC-Core — Project Oort
Bimodal Resilient Telemetry Codec for satellite downlinks. 2.08–2.53x bandwidth reduction by trading Shannon efficiency for transmission resilience. In preparation for ADASS Systems Track.
Pre-publication
Research Roadmap
Frugal Astrophysics — The Ryzen Standard
Research-grade astrophysics on consumer hardware. Neurosymbolic regression for TTV dynamics, cross-modal distillation for GW detection, and sparse autoencoders for stellar anomaly taxonomy — all under an 8GB constraint.
PySRKnowledge DistillationTop-K SAETESS/LIGO
Thoughts
How I Use AI as a Tool, Not a Crutch
What Chess Taught Me About Building Systems
Projects / Works
RTC-Core (Project Oort)Bimodal Resilient Telemetry Codec for high-BER satellite downlinks. 2.08–2.53x bandwidth reduction over 16-bit FITS by trading Shannon coding efficiency for strict transmission resilience.
SENTRYDeterministic verification engine for smart contract exploits. Constructs executable Solidity Test Harnesses to verify AI-generated exploit hypotheses — moving from stochastic auditing to deterministic proof.
Exo-CheckmatePhysics-informed exoplanet discovery engine. Implements Hill Stability Criteria (Gladman, 1993) and Box Least Squares to prune unstable orbital candidates before ML classification.
Pyre EngineOpen Source Contributor (WoC 5.0). High-performance C++17/OpenGL 4.5 rendering engine. Zero-allocation render loops and cache-friendly entity storage for frame-time stability on integrated graphics.
About
Me
Ripuranjan Baruah
I develop systems for scientific telemetry, blockchain verification, and computational astrophysics. My work focuses on deterministic logic and architectures that prioritize algorithmic efficiency over brute-force compute. Everything is built and tested under the Ryzen Standard — research-grade results on consumer-grade hardware.
Skills
Featured
GitHub Activity
Stack I use
Technologies I build with — from low-level C++ to physics pipelines
"I'd rather build something that breaks beautifully than something that stays safely ordinary."
— R.B.
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