Software Engineer | Systems & Applied ML
confidence: high
also: i tested it three times
I architect distributed systems that deliver AI hallucinations with sub-millisecond latency.
- LambdaSearch: A Learning-to-Rank search engine built with XGBoost LambdaMART and Elasticsearch. Trains on synthetic click data to re-rank BM25 results, evaluated by NDCG@10. (Because standard full-text search just wasn't complicated enough).
- Hackawon: A static, serverless platform that aggregates hackathons from Devfolio, Unstop, and MLH, then generates project ideas grounded in past winning submissions. Runs entirely on scheduled GitHub Actions: no backend, near-zero operating cost. (Turns out you don't need a server if you're stubborn enough about GitHub Actions).
- Halo: A macOS overlay app. !think open-source Cluely/ParakeetAI: captures screen, mic, and meeting context in real time and streams live AI assistance across OpenAI, Gemini, and Anthropic models. (An always-on-top window that knows what you're doing. Slightly unsettling, very useful though).
Currently working on my Open-source contributions. I'm currently contributing across Flatcar (test automation harness for sysext images) and CNCF projects, also exploring agent-based modeling. Past contributions include NumPy, scikit-learn, statmodels and a few more around the PyData ecosystem.
LLMs: whatever has a good API and doesn't rate-limit me at 2am
Retrieval: pgvector until it hurts, then actually learn the fancy stuff
Agents/MCP: build the tool first, trust the model second
Infra: my own PC, until it can't take it anymore

