About Me
Hello there, I’m Tazim RB Kushal. Officially, I’m an electrical engineer with a job as a system protection engineer at an electrical utility. Unofficially, my horizons are a little broader. I am interested in technology, anthropology, and history. As a strong believer in overall competency, I like exploring areas of knowledge lateral to my current field and tinkering with things (mainly computers). Key areas that I have strongly focused on are programming, mathematics, data science, and technical writing.
Academic and Professional Summary
I have a bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical and computer engineering. Earlier in my professional career, I worked in engineering education as an instruction and teaching assistant. During graduate study, my research focused on cyber-phyiscal resilience of power systems. Since the end of grad school, I have been employed as a protection engineer at a utility company.
Hobbies and Interests
It’s tricky to sort all of my interests into neat themes. Beyond work and formal education, I’m deeply interested in technology, its ability to shape human affairs, and the resulting moral chaos. That goes hand-in-hand with my interest in prehistoric human societies and their journey to modernity. A more traditional tech-related hobby of mine is building a home-server to self-host services (such as cloud storage and media libraries), in addition to casually tinkering with computers.
The writings that I put up on this website are mostly found in the blog, which vary between informal musings and more elaborate, thought-out articles.
Does cooking count as a hobby if you do it both as a chore and for fun? To be more specific, my hobby is to find delicious, nutritious, low-carb meals that I don’t mind preparing and eating a few times a week. And to find enough of them to avoid eating the same thing every day.