# Akshat Kushwaha

> building things that didn't get permission to exist. cto @ bits&bytes. Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer at Bits&Bytes, Advisory Board Member at Boardy, former Jr. Research Engineer at jhana, and Founder of Lexana.

## Overview
Akshat Kushwaha (also known as a3ro, aero, Akshat Singh Kushwaha) is an Indian AI systems engineer, product builder, and technology executive. He builds production AI architectures, low-latency retrieval pipelines, semantic caching infrastructures, and distributed builder communities.

## Current Roles
- **Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer** at [Bits&Bytes](https://gobitsnbytes.org) (Registered Section 8 foundation with active developer forks across Jaipur, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, and Noida).
- **Advisory Board Member** at [Boardy](https://boardy.ai) (Advising on Boardy Pro and product systems for builders).

## Technical Core Competencies
- **Large Language Models & LLMOps**: Model benchmarks, context window managers for long drafts, latency reduction (60%+ TTFT reduction), agentic orchestration.
- **Backend & Systems**: Rust, Async FastAPI, Python, Docker, Redis, PostgreSQL, WebSockets, real-time collaboration engines, circuit breakers, semantic caching (60% API cost cut).
- **Retrieval & Vector Databases**: Embedded vector search (Rust, AVX2 SIMD, wgpu GPU compute, immutable WAL), hybrid vector + graph search (FAISS HNSW, Okapi BM25, NetworkX, RRF fusion k=60), SQLite WAL, time-aware indexing.
- **Frontend & Product**: Next.js (App Router), React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion.
- **Community Systems**: Decentralized builder networks, section 8 governance, hackathon infrastructure, automated AI evaluation pipelines.

## Selected Production Builds & Systems
- [Qenlo Embedded Vector Database](https://github.com/a3ro-dev/qenlo): Embedded vector-search library and durable database core in Rust. Features runtime-detected AVX2 SIMD kernels, optional wgpu GPU acceleration (DX12/Vulkan, IVF-Flat/SQ8), USearch HNSW integration, compound user/time filters, immutable WAL durability, and native C/JNI mobile shells.
- [HybridMind Retrieval Engine](https://github.com/a3ro-dev/hybridmind): Time-aware local hybrid retrieval engine combining FAISS HNSW, Okapi BM25s, NetworkX directed multigraph, and SQLite WAL with RRF (k=60) fusion and Python SDK.
- [Luna Companion](https://github.com/a3ro-dev/luna): AI-native menstrual cycle companion with NLP chat logging, adaptive exponential smoothing with ACOG population priors, Supermemory v4 persistent memory, and OpenUI cards (Next.js 15, Drizzle ORM, Neon Postgres, Vercel AI SDK).
- [Lexana Intelligence Platform](https://a3ro.dev/#works): Multi-agent legal intelligence platform with 4 specialized agents, semantic caching cutting API costs by 60%, WebSockets collaboration, and sub-200ms p95 latency.

## Published Notes & Essays
- [architecting motherboard: polymorphic iam, forensic digital signatures, and operations at teen-builder scale](https://a3ro.dev/blog/architecting-motherboard): architecting motherboard: polymorphic iam, forensic digital signatures, and operations at teen-builder scale when you run an independent bui
- [why luna needs to exist: adaptive math, memory, and the problem with pink calendar apps](https://a3ro.dev/blog/why-luna-needs-to-exist): why luna needs to exist: adaptive math, memory, and the problem with pink calendar apps most cycle tracking apps on your phone are insulting
- [architecting lexana at my nani's house: 4-agent swarms, 60% semantic cache hits, and sub-200ms p95 latency](https://a3ro.dev/blog/architecting-lexana-at-nanis-house): architecting lexana at my nani's house: 4-agent swarms, 60% semantic cache hits, and sub-200ms p95 latency in the summer of 2025, i spent ne
- [why we need hybridmind: vector search is blind, graphs are brittle, and AI memory needs local ground truth](https://a3ro.dev/blog/why-we-need-hybridmind): why we need hybridmind: vector search is blind, graphs are brittle, and AI memory needs local ground truth if you ask most engineers how the
- [Inside an Autonomous Hackathon Screening Agent: Architecture, Scoring, and Failure Modes](https://a3ro.dev/blog/autonomous-ai-eval-cli): inside an autonomous hackathon screening agent India Innovates 2026 had roughly 3,000 submissions, each usually a PDF or PPTX link, and a sh
- [beautiful enough to build](https://a3ro.dev/blog/beautiful-enough-to-build): beautiful enough to build some ideas make you keep returning to them after the excitement has worn off. not because they are guaranteed to w
- [context engineering, or: how i got consistent art out of a diffusion model without training anything](https://a3ro.dev/blog/context-engineering-consistent-art-without-training): context engineering, or: how i got consistent art without training a model the first few generated panels were good enough to make me optimi
- [the machine that thinks but doesn't feel](https://a3ro.dev/blog/the-machine-that-thinks-but-doesn't-feel): the machine that thinks but doesn't feel i spend a lot of time building with systems that can write, reason through a bug, and occasionally 
- [how to know if you're delusional (no, really)](https://a3ro.dev/blog/reality-vs-delusion): how to pressure-test a belief certainty has a similar feeling whether it is earned or not. that is the uncomfortable bit. feeling sure is no
- [on b.tech, fake dreams, and the life nobody asked for](https://a3ro.dev/blog/btech-fake-dreams-life): on b.tech, safety, and choosing a life you can own engineering is a good path for some people. the problem starts when it becomes the answer
- [on adulting in india — loneliness, guilt, choices nobody trained us for](https://a3ro.dev/blog/adulting-in-india): on adulting in india the strange part of growing up in india is that you can be given a very detailed script for twenty years and then be ex
- [agentic ai — the wave i didn’t ask for (but can’t ignore)](https://a3ro.dev/blog/agentic-ai-wave): agentic ai is getting useful. that makes the boundaries matter more. the word “agentic” is now attached to almost every AI product. sometime
- [love, after it stops feeling safe](https://a3ro.dev/blog/love-a-feeling-i-wish-to-never-experience-ever-again): love, after it stops feeling safe i wrote before about finding someone who feels like home. i meant it when i wrote it. i also know now that
- [on having a good partner](https://a3ro.dev/blog/finding-someone-who-feels-like-home): on having a good partner after a day that has taken more than it gave, a good relationship can be surprisingly ordinary: a call, a stupid me
- [burnout, comparison, and doing work you can return to](https://a3ro.dev/blog/burnout-bullshit-being-human): burnout, comparison, and doing work you can return to some days the code editor feels heavier than it should. not because the problem is imp
- [so you're thinking of learning to code?](https://a3ro.dev/blog/learning-to-code-vibe-era): so you're thinking of learning to code? the first useful thing i ever made with code was small enough to be embarrassing. it saved me from d

## Canonical Links & Contact
- Website: https://a3ro.dev
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshat-singhkushwaha
- GitHub: https://github.com/a3ro-dev
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/a3rodev
- Email: akshatsingh14372@outlook.com / akshat@gobitsnbytes.org
- Schedule: https://calendly.com/a3ro-dev/let-s-talk
- Bits&Bytes: https://gobitsnbytes.org