Urban Pistek

SWE + ML at IntelliCulture | BASc in Mechatronics Engineering

Bachelors of Applied Science in Mechatronics Engineering at University of Waterloo.

When I was young - as young as 5 years old - I distinctly remember checking out the space books from my school library. I would turn the pages with awe looking at the images of galaxies, stars and all the various diagrams. This progressed into books on dinosaurs, rocks, electronics and various other scientific topics. I barely knew how to read and english was my second language, yet more than comic books those books spoke to me.

Now after all those years I feel that I finally have the bare minimum knowledge to actually understand a sliver of those technical topics. Most importantly I feel that I have the patience, discipline and curiosity to learn, as the growing mountain of knowledge stands before me. This is why I love engineering. The ability to learn and apply knowledge, to create and understand complex systems with the elegance of a stroke of an artist's brush. To master laws of the universe and use them with incredible precision, there is something beautiful about that.