About
I’m Saharsh. I graduated from high school in 2026, and most of the projects on this site started because I wanted to understand something well enough to build with it.
I keep coming back to physics, space systems, measurement, and computation. I’m especially interested in problems where an abstract idea has to become something testable — a simulation, an electronics design, a software model, or a system that has to make a decision from imperfect data.
What I enjoy most is the point where the first explanation stops being enough. A model fits but cannot identify the cause. A schematic has the support electronics but not the actual measurement path. A simulation produces a convincing field map but still does not prove the performance claim. Those are usually the moments that teach me the most.
What keeps pulling me back
Space is where a lot of these interests meet for me. Spacecraft have limited power, limited mass, noisy measurements, difficult communications, and very little room for assumptions that have not been tested. At the same time, the physics questions I find most interesting — from radiation and plasma to gravity, black holes, and cosmology — keep reminding me how much there is still to understand.
I don’t know yet whether the work I eventually do will sit more on the engineering side or the physics side. That is one reason I keep building across both.
How I work
I usually start with a question and build the smallest version that can tell me whether my assumptions make sense. Then I look closely at what the result actually supports.
That often means changing the question. A low reading is not automatically a fault. A GNSS timestamp is not automatically an event time. A crossed detector is not automatically polarization-insensitive. I try to document those changes because the reasoning behind a correction is usually more useful than pretending the first version was right.
What I want to explore next
In college, I want to go deeper into the mathematics and physics behind the systems I have been building — mechanics, electromagnetism, quantum physics, computation, and the engineering needed to turn models into experiments.
I also want to work on projects where simulation and design eventually meet physical testing. Right now, a lot of my portfolio is strongest on software, electronics design, and computational modeling. Building and testing more physical systems is the next gap I want to close.
Outside engineering
Chess
I play regularly on Chess.com and compete in online tournaments. I like the combination of pattern recognition, calculation, and making decisions under time pressure.
Why this site exists
I started this site because finished results leave out the part I usually learn from: what I misunderstood, what the evidence changed, and what I would do differently next time. The Engineering Log is where I try to keep that part visible.