About

Who I am, what I work on, and how to reach me.

Hello. I am Joyen.

Welcome to my corner of the internet. I am an SoC Design Engineer and founding engineer for the SoC generator platform at InCore Semiconductors. I hold a B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from PES University.

Reach me: email · GitHub · LinkedIn · CV (PDF)

I am an engineer interested in the intersection of Circuits, computer architecture, EDA methodologies and hardware compilers

My work revolves around building tools that synthesize systems, from RTL generators and NoCs to architecture tooling, DSLs, and physical aware hardware/software co-design infrastructure. I enjoy working across abstraction boundaries, where ideas from hardware-compilers, PL, algorithms, mathematics and architecture begin to overlap.

I am driven by the challenge of building technology across layers of abstraction. I believe in applying the discretization discipline - imposing rigorous, logical boundaries upon chaotic, complex systems to engineer elegant solutions.

M. C. Escher's lithograph Relativity: a maze of staircases where figures walk in three different directions of gravity.
Escher’s Relativity depicts an impossible architectural world where people move through different gravitational planes simultaneously. What first appears chaotic slowly reveals an intricate underlying order.

When I am not designing hardware architectures, you will likely find me listening to 90s alternative rock, or capturing the high-contrast, cinematic monochrome of the streets with my Fujifilm X-M5.

Some things I enjoy:

  • Designing systems from first principles
  • Building tools that automate difficult engineering work
  • Reading architecture, EDA and PD papers late into the night
  • Understanding how abstractions leak and why
  • Turning ideas into working prototypes quickly
  • Teaching and mentoring through open work
  • Finding elegant interfaces between hardware and software

Outside engineering, I spend time reading, writing, taking photographs, lifting weights, listening to rock, and occasionally disappearing into long walks thinking about systems, life, and why humans build things the way they do.

This website is a living notebook of my work, notes, research interests, projects, half-formed thoughts and occasionally life from my perspective. I add to it continuously, sometimes polished, sometimes raw, usually driven by curiosity.

Ideologies

At my core, I approach every problem with an open door and a mindset of Kaizen - continuous, incremental improvement. I try to live by a principle beautifully captured by Oscar Wilde:

“If you know exactly what you want to be in life a teacher, a grocer, a soldier you will become that, and that’s your punishment. Actually not knowing what you want to be, reinventing yourself every morning, not being a noun but being a verb, moving in life, not being fixed… is a privilege.”

To be a verb is to remain adaptable. In a world that demands rigid definitions, choosing to evolve is the ultimate advantage.

What really is life? (Beyond engineering)

If engineering is the act of imposing order upon silicon, life is the far greater art of imposing order upon the self. It is not found in the accumulation of external things, but in the deliberate curation of what remains when the noise is stripped away.

Life is the silent observation of a fleeting moment. It is the understanding that light only holds its meaning when contrasted against the dark. It is the steady rhythm we choose to move to, and the voluntary, daily resistance we endure to forge a stronger physical and mental foundation. We are the architects of our own character. Every choice made in solitude, every moment of stillness, and every conscious refusal of distraction is a brick laid in the fortress of the mind. To live well is to be profoundly present, shaping the raw material of time into a quiet, enduring beauty.

Thoughts

Time is our only true universal metric, an impartial current carrying us all forward. If you sit in stillness and simply observe humanity, the world unfolds like a beautifully complex simulation. There is a profound, almost innocent joy in just watching the human dance: people navigating their lives, bound by invisible scripts, yet entirely unpredictable.

We instinctively create rigid systems, societal norms, mental models, lifelong expectations to make sense of the chaos. But these constructs are never sacred. They are meant to be bent, broken, and endlessly tailored as we evolve. True clarity comes from stepping outside the box and realizing that the boundaries we confine ourselves to are mostly illusions.