01 — SYSTEMS
Below the waterline
PID flight controllers, vision pipelines, supercapacitor power — if it has a control loop, I tune it.
Gunvir Dhesi builds products from the metal up.
EDU
University of Waterloo · Engineering ’28
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AI Product Engineer @ Substrate — digital equipment financing, SF
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What I do
02 — PRODUCT
Ship the whole thing
End-to-end at Substrate. Founded three things before university.
03 — FRONT-END
Where people can see
Exhibit A: this site. No framework, no build step — files I edit by hand.
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Things I've built on purpose
Substrate — digital equipment financing platform
CURRENTAI Product Engineer. Product design, UI/UX, backend, and AWS infra — primary on-call for production incidents, often owns massive projects solo.
Autonomous sidewalk robot
Real-time segmentation (SegFormer-B0, 92% mIoU) at 20Hz to a custom STM32 rig. 5km autonomous, 97% reliable.
Site4u
Founded & run a 25-member team shipping 30+ full-stack apps, 100% on time. CI/CD cut deploys from 2h to 15min.
Com-IT Innovation
Shipped a React/Node.js portal serving 700+ DAU; cut page-load time 35%. OAuth2.0/JWT auth, GitHub Actions CI/CD.
Arduino drones
Two drones designed from scratch — code, PID, schematics, 3D models — over 3 years, grade 8 to 12. Now building target lock-on in C++.
Electromagnetic roller coaster
Electromagnets + sensors manage cart speed and stop carts colliding. 400+ hours, 12-hour days, one month.
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- NEAT car simulationcars evolve neural nets via pygame + neat-pythonPython · NEAT↗
- Supercapacitor RC vehicleFPV + GPS rover with fast-charge supercapacitorsArduino · FPV · GPS
- Quick-Chat.caa chat platform built around ruthless simplicitychat · simplicity
- G BIKESaffordable eBikes built from car alternatorsEV · hardware
- SigmaCodersprogramming tutoring platform, certification includedfounder · edtech↗
- Medicine dispenserautomated dosage management on an STM32STM32 · embedded
- The Door Stopwireless electromagnetic doorstop, built in two weekselectromagnet · wireless
- Emergency Sheltergrade-10 disaster-relief shelter designdesign · relief
- WoLifehackathon build (GunnHacks 7.0)hackathon
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The Feed
Things worth keeping — notes, what I'm reading, podcasts, and posts of my own.
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Track record
experience
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AI Product Engineering Intern — Substrate Industries
Product design, UI/UX, backend, AWS infra. Primary on-call for production incidents, often owns massive projects solo.
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Software Engineering Intern — Com-IT Innovation
Shipped a React/Node.js portal serving 700+ DAU. Cut page-load time 35% via code-splitting/lazy loading. OAuth2.0/JWT auth in Express; GitHub Actions CI/CD.
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Engineering Intern — Affordable EBikes
Mentored an intern on battery design/assembly (2x production increase). QA/diagnostics for e-bike systems; circuit design and pack protection.
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Team Member — Electrium Mobility
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Founder — Site4u · SigmaCoders · Quick Chat
Site4u: 30+ apps, 25-member team.
education
University of Waterloo
Coursework: data structures, algorithms, embedded systems, digital logic (Verilog), assembly. Specializing toward ML/AI.
awards & recognition
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CNML — national top scorer, Chinguacousy SS
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3rd place, ROPSSAA badminton (doubles)
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2nd place, ROPSSAA tennis · OFSAA qualifier
- 2nd place, 100m medley · competitive swimming (Barracuda club)
SHAMELESS CTA
Hire me, or just say hi
Open to internships, co-ops, and interesting problems.