Adithya Rajendran

M.S. Engineering student · Robotics & AI

Open to Summer 2027 internships · Full-time opportunities in 2028

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Homelab with segmented networks and high availability 

A personal cloud built to be rebuilt: bare-metal provisioning over PXE, segmented networking, and storage kept outside the cluster, so the lab can be wiped and redeployed without losing data.

  • MAAS
  • Ubuntu Core
  • MicroCloud (LXD)
  • Landscape
Server rack with three Minisforum MS-01 systems and an ASUS Ascent.
  • A wooden mail-sorting cabinet; a robotic gripper pulls one orange envelope from its slot.
    Illustration

    Complete2022–2025

    Gmail filter with an experimental spam classifier

    A Gmail API filter built with a student team in 2022, extended in 2025 with a TF-IDF and multilayer-perceptron spam classifier trained on the public CEAS-08 email corpus.

  • Three small black computers in a row on a dark shelf, linked by orange cables.
    Illustration

    Completec. 2024–2025

    Kubernetes cluster with NFS and OIDC

    Built a highly available three-node Kubernetes cluster with zero downtime during upgrades and maintenance.

  1. 7 min read

    A Homelab Built to Be Rebuilt

    How three Raspberry Pis, an old Dell laptop, and three mini PCs bootstrap my OpenStack lab—and why I keep the NAS and GPU systems outside that chain.

  2. 5 min read

    Running GUI Apps in LXD Containers

    The LXD profile I use to run GUI tools on my Linux desktop, with shared display sockets, GPU access, and the limits of that isolation.

  3. 4 min read

    Sharing the DGX Spark GPU with MicroK8s

    Setting up MicroK8s, the NVIDIA GPU Operator, and GPU time-slicing on my DGX Spark, including the containerd paths and memory-sharing tradeoffs.

I’m exploring how robots perceive and remember the world.

Current focus