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domenico VALENTINO

Software · Hardware · Everything between

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About

I build things that sit at the intersection of software and hardware.

CS student heading to McGill Computer Engineering this fall. Product Specialist at Apple. Co-founder of Kaskaraa Instruments, where we're automating pathology and I write the entire software stack.

I reverse engineer iOS apps and old DRMs, design circuits, solder boards, debug embedded firmware with an oscilloscope, and write production code. Not a specialist — a generalist who goes deep.

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KASKARAAAPPLEMcGILL6502PATHOLOGYREVERSE ENGINEERINGHARDWAREEMBEDDEDSWIFTELECTRICALDAWSON COLLEGEFRC ALUMN

Writing

Things I've been thinking about.

01

Kaskaraa Instruments

Co-founding a company that automates pathology.

02

McGill, Fall 2026

I got into McGill Computer Engineering. I start in the fall.

03

Building a 6502: Ben Eater's kit and my own chaos

Breadboarding a 6502 computer from scratch, then going off-script.

04

Cracking SafeDisc: how 2002's copy protection actually worked

Reverse engineering the DRM that made your CD-ROM drive click like a Geiger counter.

05

Inside a Sony D-EJ01: reverse engineering anti-skip protection

How a $30 thrift store find turned into a deep dive on embedded DSP and buffer management.

06

Reverse-Engineering Instagram: erasing Reels, step-by-step

A long-form, narrative walk-through of the swift tweak I built to cut Meta’s dopamine loops off at the root.