About

Most of my time goes into ScheduLearn, a scheduling tool for schools that I cofounded while I was still in university. I take care of the backend and the cloud infrastructure it runs on, and the day-to-day frontend work too. I finished my BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science at the Jerusalem College of Technology in 2026 and have been on ScheduLearn full-time since. After six years in Jerusalem, I'm back in Maryland for now.

Outside of that, my projects have mostly been things I didn't know how to build when I started. For a long time that meant software: browser games, WhatsApp and Reddit bots, an iOS Reddit client, and an app for the yeshiva I studied at. A few of them ended up being used by real people. A lot of them never got finished, which is fine, since that's usually where I learned the most.

More recently I've started getting into reverse engineering: figuring out how undocumented hardware, protocols, and firmware work, and getting them to do things they weren't built to do. Right now that's a Windows-only fingerprint reader I'm trying to get working on Linux. Those projects come with even less certainty about how they'll turn out, which makes them a good fit for this notebook.

What this is

This is my engineering notebook. I write about projects while I'm still working on them: what I tried, what broke, and what I figured out along the way. It's not a portfolio, so expect unfinished prototypes, dead ends, and investigations that don't have an ending yet. I explain why in my first post.

Not every question I think about compiles. Those questions, about God, judgment, peoplehood, and language, go on Thoughts, my second notebook. The essays there take a position, say how sure I am, and say what would change my mind.

Get in touch

My code is on GitHub, and you can reach me at benjitusk1 .at. gmail .dot. com. I'm open to engineering roles in the Baltimore area or remote, so if you're hiring, here's my CV (PDF). When I'm not at a computer, I'm usually rollerblading, reading, or out for a walk.