Skip to content
View koratkar's full-sized avatar
9 followers · 26 following

Achievements

Achievement: Pull Shark

Achievements

Achievement: Pull Shark

Block or report koratkar

Block user

Prevent this user from interacting with your repositories and sending you notifications. Learn more about blocking users.

You must be logged in to block users.

Please don't include any personal information such as legal names or email addresses. Maximum 100 characters, markdown supported. This note will be visible to only you.
Report abuse

Contact GitHub support about this user’s behavior. Learn more about reporting abuse.

Report abuse
koratkar/README.md

readme.md

Hi, I'm Ishaan Koratkar.

Available for hire. My skills are: making costs go down, making profits go up.

I'm 18 years old and attend the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. I'm currently set to major in statistics.

Email me: ishaan[at]koratkar.com. I love getting mail and making new friends on the internet!
Find me on twitter.
My discord username: @whybyfire

Projects:

  • Conversations with Tyler semantic search
    • Featured on Marginal Revolution!
    • To build this, I scraped the transcript log of Conversations with Tyler, embedded them using OpenAI text-embedding-3-small, uploaded them to a Cloudflare vectorize index, and used a Cloudflare worker to retrieve the embeddings.
    • Why this showcases technical skills: required resourcefulness, testing each part of Cloudflare systems which I hadn't used prior, and debugging arcane errors in a systematic fashion.
    • Why this transfers to reducing costs & making profits go up: I built the system for under 10¢, researching several options to find the cheapest overall means. I also chose a podcast that many people listen to and would like to have search access to.
  • Career Scouting
    • This is a set of interviews (transcriptions only) with people involved in different career paths. I conducted the interviews in 11th grade, with the hopes of finding something I'd best be fit for. I settled on ML engineering & cybersecurity as my main goals, though I also interviewed doctors, social workers, scientists, and a bouncer at a rave.
    • Why this project transfers to reducing costs & making profits go up: It demonstrates my agency, and my ability to ask important questions and find people with relevant answers.
  • Carleton College Windmill cost reduction
    • I briefly attended Carleton College in 2024, then transferred to the University of Minnesota due to a personal cost-benefit analysis on the fees. During this time, I analyzed the energy costs and found a few different ways to improve overall costs by calculating the effect of each profit and cost center on overall expenses. I reported my findings to the manager of energy.
    • Why this transfers to reducing costs & making profits go up: It demonstrates the ability to gather cost information on my own, and to consider creative ways to reduce budgets

Courses & books:

My goals:

  • Become an ML engineer
  • Master the computer on the spectrum of understanding integrated circuits, assembly language, and how computers interact over networks

Pinned Loading

  1. harmontown harmontown Public

    Transcripts for Harmontown.

    HTML 1

  2. cwt-semantic-search cwt-semantic-search Public

    Use Semantic Search to explore the Conversations With Tyler transcripts

    HTML