Co-founder & CTO, Bits&Bytes
i build AI backends where latency and reliability matter. i also co-founded Bits&Bytes, a builder network with 12+ active city forks across India. advisory board at Boardy.
Selected work
01 embedded vector database
a Rust vector database that runs inside the app and survives crashes.
How it works
an embedded vector-search engine and durable database core in Rust. it detects AVX2 at runtime for SIMD kernels, can use portable GPU compute through wgpu (DX12/Vulkan, IVF-Flat & IVF-SQ8), and indexes with USearch's C++ HNSW graph, with compound user/timestamp filters over zero-server memory maps.
What holds up
durability you can check: checksummed immutable WALs and atomic snapshots. a cross-platform testkit checks results against an independent float64 oracle, and native C/JNI shells run it on mobile.
02 local hybrid retrieval engine
local search that combines vectors, keywords, graph relationships, and time.
How it works
a time-aware hybrid retrieval engine that runs locally (still a work in progress). it combines FAISS HNSW dense search, Okapi BM25 (bm25s + PyStemmer), a NetworkX directed multigraph, and SQLite in WAL mode, then blends 4096-dim vectors, lexical ranks, and typed graph proximity with Reciprocal Rank Fusion (k=60) and optional cross-encoder reranking.
What holds up
i'm using it for local memory experiments right now. snapshots are .mind.zip files with SHA256 manifests, and there's a Python SDK.
03 AI menstrual cycle companion
a cycle companion you log with conversation rather than forms.
How it works
an AI menstrual cycle companion. you log by chatting, and predictions come from adaptive exponential smoothing seeded with population priors, with 2.5σ soft clamping for outliers. it remembers across sessions through the Supermemory v4 API and replies with OpenUI structured cards.
What holds up
built on Next.js 16, Neon PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, and Vercel AI SDK v6. the design goal was to be accurate without feeling clinical.
About
started at twelve and haven't really stopped. at some point it quit being a hobby and turned into the thing i do whenever i get a free hour.
i've been ceo, cto, engineer, community person, and the one who fixes whatever just broke. switching hats is tiring, honestly. i'd still pick it over staying in one lane and learning less.
most of what i know came from constraints i didn't pick. i ran a design studio at twelve. i started a multi-agent legal platform at my nani's place with no internet. and when i couldn't find an open developer community, i co-founded Bits&Bytes, which is now a registered Section 8 foundation with 12+ active city forks.
Experience
Nov 2025 – PresentIndia · Hybrid
co-founded bits&bytes so builders in Indian cities could start things without waiting on an institution. it began as grassroots hackathons and is now a registered Section 8 non-profit with 12+ active city forks. i run the core technical infrastructure, and i'm also in the room for strategy, governance, and developer ops.
Aug 2026 – PresentGlobal · Remote
invited onto the advisory board at 18. i work with the team on Boardy Pro, give product feedback, and think through what actually makes an unexpected intro useful to a builder.
Nov 2025 – Jan 2026Bengaluru, India
worked between research and production at a legal AI lab deployed across 5+ High Courts and 3+ central ministries. for Steno, i built the audio evaluation pipeline from scratch, put together public audio and transcript datasets, and compared speech models on latency, accuracy, and cost. i also designed a GPT-4o-mini harness that improved time-to-first-token by 60%+ with no meaningful accuracy loss, at slightly lower inference cost. besides that: an agent-side window manager for long dictations, and a staging pipeline for a WhatsApp and voice-note AI IVRS that triaged legal matters and walked clients through onboarding.
May 2025 – Nov 2025Prayagraj, India
started it at my nani's place with no internet, no docs, and no Stack Overflow, and built a multi-agent legal research platform for Indian case law in one long sprint. i've since exited, and it kept going in Nepal under my co-founder.
Nov 2021 – Nov 2022Gurugram, India
started a design studio at twelve and grew it to 30 designers and 500+ orders in a year. i left to focus on software and systems. it was my first lesson in partnership alignment, team dynamics, and how a company actually gets run.
Jan 2026 – Apr 2026Boys' High School, Prayagraj
founded the STEMist chapter at Boys' High School, Prayagraj, so student builders had somewhere to show up. running it showed me a local chapter can work on its own without a central office, which is the fork model bits&bytes uses now.
Jun 2025 – Nov 2025Bengaluru, India · Remote
worked on internal tools, updated the company website, and helped out on team projects. my first real time inside an existing production codebase, shipping things other people depended on.
Jul 2025 – Aug 2025Lucknow, India
ran sponsorship for Daydream Lucknow. i secured the venue sponsor and verbal funding commitments, built the outreach pipeline, and interviewed the team from scratch. the people i met doing this are a big part of why bits&bytes exists.
Apr 2025 – Jun 2025Lucknow, India
built a WhatsApp outreach API and an AI delegate management system for GDS MUN, which replaced a lot of manual messaging. also ran their first Reddit campaign.
Feb 2024 – Jul 2024United States · Remote
managed cloud infrastructure, handled deployments, and kept things from breaking. on the side i built a client-assistance chatbot with SFT. first time working remotely with a US team.
May 2023 – Sep 2023Chandigarh, India · Remote
built a software system to automate mobile cover dropshipping: orders, tracking, customer support, and the whole pipeline. freelance, remote, figured it out as i went.
Contact
i'm most useful when the work has a real constraint attached: an AI product flow, a retrieval system, or internal tooling that has to stay readable when things get busy. replies usually land within two days, on IST.